"intelligent" disk drives

[woodelf]

Ensor wrote:

> Whilst I agree that "going decimal" is easier to understand for the 
> average "man in the street", at the end of the day, the *ONLY* reason 
> that hard drive manufacturers have gone to using 1000 instead of 1024 
> when calculating sizes is that it artificially makes the drives seem 
> bigger. Or, in other words, it's pure marketing!

Except proft margin ... then meg-a-bucks is binary. :)

> 
> Point in case, I have a "200GB" Maxtor drive in this machine, which is 
> *actually* a 186GB drive. Both sizes are quite correct depending on your 
> definition of "Kilo", "Mega" etc.
> 
> Since computers operate in binary, it makes *VASTLY* more sense for 
> "Kilo" to be defined as 1024 than 1000 (2^10) etc.
It still is.
> Most operating systems I've used tend to agree....

Other than windows ... it is 640K OS.
> 
>  TTFN - Pete.
>