Changing the Industry standard; yay or nay?

[knowledgegranted]

The International Electrotechnical Commission has been trying to push for our standard of Kilobytes, Megabytes, Gigabytes, Terabytes and Petabytes to change to kibibyes, mebibytes, gebibytes, tebibytes and pebibytes. In doing so they believe they would be correcting an issue we have had for years.

What are your beliefs on the matter?

[d_stilgar]

I say no. What they should do is grandfather old drives so that they are still fine if 1000gb = Tb, even though that is not true, but that everything produced after a certain date has to be accurate to binary/computer standards.

[nevermind1534]

I say no. What they should do is grandfather old drives so that they are still fine if 1000gb = Tb, even though that is not true, but that everything produced after a certain date has to be accurate to binary/computer standards.

I like that idea

[Spawn-Inc]

leave things the way they are... changing it will only mess things up.

or do what d_stilgar said.

or drop prices to reflect the actual amount you get but still make it even numbers.

[FuzzyPlushroom]

Why they can't make 1.1 "terabyte" drives with one real terabyte - 1,099,511,627,776 bytes - is beyond me. I'd think being able to market "the first honestly-rated platter-based hard drive!" would be worth it.`

[Luke122]

Why they can't make 1.1 "terabyte" drives with one real terabyte - 1,099,511,627,776 bytes - is beyond me. I'd think being able to market "the first honestly-rated platter-based hard drive!" would be worth it.`

SECOND.

[Waynio]

I say no. What they should do is grandfather old drives so that they are still fine if 1000gb = Tb, even though that is not true, but that everything produced after a certain date has to be accurate to binary/computer standards.

I like that idea

Yeah me too

[slaveofconvention]

It'll cost money to change it, and 99% of the population won't notice. This isn't going to happen, even though it should in the interests of honesty...

[x88x]

It'll cost money to change it, and 99% of the population won't notice. This isn't going to happen, even though it should in the interests of honesty...

/\ This. Sure, it'd be nice, but I don't see it happening, and honestly it really wouldn't make any difference to me if it did happen.

@FuzzyPlushroom: Simple reason there; it would cost slightly more, and most people would ignore the 'first honestly rated drive', and just see 'oh, well, their 1TB costs more than this other 1TB. I'll get the cheaper one'

[slaveofconvention]

@FuzzyPlushroom: Simple reason there; it would cost slightly more, and most people would ignore the 'first honestly rated drive', and just see 'oh, well, their 1TB costs more than this other 1TB. I'll get the cheaper one'

This sounds familiar lol - see what I put in a similar thread just last week lol

Business... Because if, for example, Seagate started selling 550GB hard disks as 500GB hard disks, they'd lose a fortune to, for example, Western Digital who'd market an identical Drive as 550GB.

Mr Joe Public would walk into the computer shop with his usual lack of a real clue, see Seagate 500GB sitting next to WD 550GB for the same price, and walk about with the WD....