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11-16-2002, 05:56 PM #1Web Hosting Guru
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How many MB in a GB?
Suppost to be 1000MB in a GB..right? Well, in the new plesk..I setup 25000MB transfer (25GB)..but it reports the max transfer is 24.4GB or something like that..what am I doing wrong?
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11-16-2002, 06:06 PM #2
1024MB in a GB.
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11-16-2002, 06:07 PM #3WHT Addict
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1GB = 1024MB
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11-16-2002, 06:15 PM #4Web Hosting Guru
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Wha? lol..OK..Thanks. I really didn't know that
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11-16-2002, 07:27 PM #5Web Hosting Master
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It's strange...but thats the way it is...
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11-16-2002, 08:22 PM #6Web Hosting Master
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It dpeneds on who you ask really:
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
Base 10 is easier for people to talk about, while base 2 is what computers use, so sometimes there is a "miscommunication". Example using the "giga" or "gibi" prefixes:
Base 10 would be 1000000000 -- [10^3]x3
Base 2 would be 1073741824 -- [2^10]x3
And of course we all assume the octect system is in play as well. See also:
http://jade.dautelle.com/doc/com/dau...rageUnits.html
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11-16-2002, 08:45 PM #7Web Hosting Master
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The norm is to use powers of ten for everything except address spaces. That is, you count memory with powers of two, because that is how it is addressed; but disk space is counted with powers of ten, bandwidth is counted with powers of ten (10 Mbps ethernet runs at 10^7 bps!), etc.
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11-17-2002, 12:42 PM #8Disabled
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Wow. Talk about getting technical!
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11-17-2002, 01:29 PM #9Web Hosting Master
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