Re: RAID 5 SVM performance
- From: Laurent Blume <laurent=//=pas_de_pub/news200603@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 10:54:40 +0100
David Magda wrote:
Drive manufacturers practically invented "regular SI" somewhere in the
mid-90s to inflate their drive sizes. Everything was clear until the
marketing folks started confusing things.
Not when you talked with telecom types, who have always used the
standard SI. And the rest of the scientific world, since computer
scientists did not in fact invent the "K" and "G" prefixes, and they had
a well-known meaning already before ENIAC and all arrived, and started
confusing things. See what I mean?
Aaaahhh, I *knew* there would be such an answer, so I'm out :-)
Laurent
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