Maxtor drive holds 1.8 million images

Re 1000 vs 1024: Why mass storage has consistently used the one defintion instead of the other is beyond me -- but they have been consistent over the years.

It's nothing but advertising. Back in the days when HDD sizes were measured in the low MB, some advertising type figured out that they could claim slightly larger sizes if they used 1,000,000 instead of 1,048,576 as a MB. Once the first manufacturer did it, the rest followed. After all, 20MB sounds larger than 19.1MB, even though they're actually the same size.; Posted by: Letophoro Posted on: 06/07/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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Mount them in front of a fan osreinstall | 06/06/05

Agreed erdiko@... | 06/06/05

Just the exact opposite... bad2thebone_z | 06/07/05

New dell with maxtor died Protector | 06/07/05

From my experience voska | 06/07/05

Then what is it? erdiko@... | 06/06/05

1000 vs 1024 __howard__ | 06/07/05

1024 vs 1000 CrazY_UKRaiNiaN | 06/07/05

Actually voska | 06/07/05

Still not quite right emcee_z | 06/07/05

Re 1000 vs 1024 Letophoro | 06/07/05

Very easy to figure osreinstall | 06/07/05

250 hours of HDTV? __howard__ | 06/07/05

Ahh, you're right. UncleBubba | 06/07/05

At 2 GB per DVD movie voska | 06/07/05

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