Hard Drive Capacity Confusion, Lucidly Explained

mrklin writes "James Wiebe of wiebetech.com has written a clear example of how hard drive capacity is calculated (PDF file) by hard drive manufacturers (base 10) and OS (base 2). He failed to name how the capacity should be described, though."

Comments

Gigi? Nah Gibi? Nah

[l810c]

How much Porn will it hold?

This one will hold 30 days of Porn

Now, this one here will hold 45 days of Porn

Break it down to something Everyone understands

Re:Gigi? Nah Gibi? Nah

[orthogonal]

How much Porn will it hold?

This one will hold 30 days of Porn

Now, now, now, this is just wrong!

Everybody knows you don't measure porn in days.

True porn afficianados know that you measure porn in terms of the amount of keyboard cleaning required.

Re:Gigi? Nah Gibi? Nah

[darkov]

Your idea is good, but it needs a unit since "days of porn" clumsy. I propose the "ejac" which is one days worth of porn. Larger units are derived using the usual base 10 system:

decaejac
kiloejac
megaejac
gigaejac ... and so on

This is a handy unit since it can be converted into time (1 ejac = 20 minutes), liquid volume (1 ejac = 10cc), sound volume (1 ejac = 90dB) and distance (1 ejac = 75cm).

If we all pull together, with this as our common goal, we can make the ejac a truly universal unit.