• sep@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Everybody knew exactly what kilo mega and giga ment. when drive vendors deliberatly lied on there pdf’s about their drive sizes. Warnings were issued: this drive will not work in a raid as a replacement for same size!!. And everybody was throwing fumes on mailinglists about the bullshit situation.

    But money won, as usual.

    Source: threw fumes!

    • megane-kun@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      Not too sure if they outright lied, but I suppose we can say that they used the change to make their drives seem larger!

      That’s why I wished computer people had used a prefix system distinct from the SI ones. If we’re measuring our storage devices in yeetibytes rather than gigabytes, for example, then I suppose there’s less chance that we’ve ended up in this situation.