Hard Drive Formatted Size

[Madwand1]

Originally posted by: archcommus
I agree with you, ambiguity in the technical world is not good

I'll take that, thanks

I could certainly go on and on about this, but need to go back to doing something else. (This will in fact involve some performance measurements, and when I'm done, the results will be reported in MB/s where M = 10^6.)

For your interest, here's a discussion from the Linux world, which showed that its adoption wasn't painless either.

http://kerneltrap.org/node/340

No pain, no gain

The KB unit has been reserved for the temperature of a linux-kernel
flamewar multiplied by the number of bytes of network traffic wasted on
that flame-war.