[Novalug] 800,000 Megabytes

Tux Subscriber Dave Aronson tux2dave@davearonson.com
Fri Jul 18 15:18:35 EDT 2008


Jay Hart <jhart@kevla.org> wrote:

> So, I'm trying to determine how much 800,000 Megabytes is. If I am right then
> a 1000 MB should be a GB, so in essence this is really 800GB.
>
> Am I correct in my thinking?

Kinda-sorta.  There's the whole 1000 vs. 1024 controversy, which
sometimes matters, but for most of us it's usually close enough.  You
could also say it's 0.8TB.

-Dave

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