If we were buying direct from Seagate, IBM, quantum, etc, then I agree that would be the proper thing to do. However many of us buy from Sun and Netapp, and those were the vendors in question here; as there are Netapp folks here and experienced Sun folk here as well, I believe this to be an aprropriate forum for the specific question asked previously. Which I will now reiterate: Does anyone know whether Sun and Netapp follow the 2^10 or 10^3 convention when stating the size of the disks they resell?
Justin
John Tatar wrote:
Actually Trevor answered the question (and I don't mean to start a flame war here). You need to check on each vendor's page. By each vendor I mean disk vendor (seagate, IBM, quantum, etc.), because they differ. Also the problem becomes that some vendors embraced 2^10 factor and then changed to the 10^3 factor. For example, the drive specs that I have seen from quantum and seagate use the 10^3 factor for MB and GB, I'm not sure what other vendors use.
Sometimes the simple questions don't have simple answers.
Jay Orr wrote:
By restating someone's question as an answer, it is not "asked and answered". I had put to this forum the question of what does Netapps and Sun do, since there are many Netapp people on this and many people who use Sun here.
Your answers have been less then helpful - If you don't know then why did you reply to the original posting? It was a SIMPLE QUESTION, I didn't ask for the theory of powers of two, I didn't ask "who should I ask", I didn't say "how does Trevor feel about this?" I simply posted to this informative list a simple question of WHAT DOES NETAPP and SUN do in formulating what they consider MB and GB.
Please, if you have nothing useful to add to a discussion, don't interject. That's just common decency...
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Paquette, Trevor wrote:
Oh brother..
asked and answered..
"Each vendor will have to be asked what method they use in the real world."
The answer is "ask them.."
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