[clug] Disk size

Bryan Kilgallin kilgallin at iinet.net.au
Wed Aug 29 04:37:01 UTC 2018


Hey Eyal:

> Regarding my original posting, my concern is that until recently a 32GB 
> (decimal) disk really have
> at least 32,000,000,000 bytes, and now it does not.

I have an old SCSI hard disk drive rated 10 MiB; be grateful!

> So I expect that either the actual raw storage is 10% less today (a 
> business move), or they increased
> theĀ  over-provisioning by about 10% (improving robustness?) using the 
> same die size.

What are you going to do about it?
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