@geekmorgan: A better version of your joke would go as follows ...
"Wait ... this is a hard drive manufacturer so when they get to 1,073,741,824 drives (1 G-drives), we can celebrate!"
Then again, hard drive manufacturers are notorious for disobeying the rules of orders of magnitude for binary numbers so there would be some lame fine print at the bottom: "(for the purposes of the sales volume, Seagate considers 1,000,000,000 drives to be a G-drive)".
Shame on you Engadget - cloud computing still needs data storage even if it's not on your own computer, this just moves the storage to a different location, not diminish its use!
I used to agree with you on the prefix thing, until someone explained it to me. Technically, the HDD industry is using the Giga prefix correctly. A Gibibyte is the IEC-approved prefix for 2^30 bytes.
I got a 400GB and a 700GB Seagate external firewire HDD for free today, the delivery van guy bought them in the shop and had no idea what they were! I don't know where they came from, they don't look to be even a year old
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Coolio I've got a 400GB drive in my computer and a 4GB microgrive. Both are awesome.
Dur, and they're both Seagate.
Wait... this is a hard drive manufacturer so when they get to 1,073,741,824 bytes, or 2 to the power of 30 bytes we can really celebrate.
@geekmorgan: A better version of your joke would go as follows ...
"Wait ... this is a hard drive manufacturer so when they get to 1,073,741,824 drives (1 G-drives), we can celebrate!"
Then again, hard drive manufacturers are notorious for disobeying the rules of orders of magnitude for binary numbers so there would be some lame fine print at the bottom: "(for the purposes of the sales volume, Seagate considers 1,000,000,000 drives to be a G-drive)".
Shame on you Engadget - cloud computing still needs data storage even if it's not on your own computer, this just moves the storage to a different location, not diminish its use!
@Langdon:
I used to agree with you on the prefix thing, until someone explained it to me. Technically, the HDD industry is using the Giga prefix correctly. A Gibibyte is the IEC-approved prefix for 2^30 bytes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giga
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibi#IEC_standard_prefixes
I got a 400GB and a 700GB Seagate external firewire HDD for free today, the delivery van guy bought them in the shop and had no idea what they were! I don't know where they came from, they don't look to be even a year old