Is there a way/option to have the UI show disk capacities in the base 2 system instead of base 10?

Ex: Instead of 1TB it would show 931GB, and the same would be said for used space.  You know when 1024 bytes = 1KB instead of 1000 bytes

Edited May 15, 20179 yr by SG872

If this ever becomes an option, I sincerely hope that the IEC prefixes are used (resulting in KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB and so on...)

Really, Microsoft should update their OS and use the correct abbreviations.

 

The difference between "computer-ese" and "disk-drive-maker-ese" in capacity has been around for a VERY long time (at least since I first started working with computer 54 years ago) ... and isn't likely to change.

 

If LimeTech displayed the "computer-ese" values on the GUI (i.e. 1KB = 2^10), folks would complain about the disks being smaller than the labeled capacity (which is, of course, in "disk-drive-maker-ese" (1KB = 10^3).

 

There is, of course, no "right way" -- and it's very unlikely that the the IEC's suggestion to use "kibibytes" instead of "kilobytes" will become widely adapted.   I think users will simply have to understand the difference in how PC's vs. disk manufacturers measure and know what's being displayed.

 

Let me ask a question:

 

File size = 100 MB

Link speed = 100 Mbps

 

How long does it take to transfer this file?

 

A) 100MB = 100 * 8 = 800Mb / 100Mbps = 8 sec

B) 100MB = 100 * 1024 * 1024 * 8 = 838.86 / 100Mbps = 8.4 sec

C) 100MB = 100 * 8 = 800Mb / 100 * 1024 * 1024 = 7.6 sec

D) 100MB = 100 * 1024 * 1024 * 8 / 100 * 1024 * 1024 = 8 sec

 

The thing is in unRAID it isn't consistent.  The disks shows as 1TB instead of 931 GiB, but when you create a vdisk say 700GB it is actually 700GiB and not 751GB

Edited May 15, 20179 yr by SG872

It's true that consistency can improve, the VM part is an example.

 

In other parts of the configuration, e.g. cache minimum free size, the following is used (see also help)

 

KB = 1,000
MB = 1,000,000
GB = 1,000,000,000
TB = 1,000,000,000,000

If no suffix, a count of 1024-byte blocks is assumed.

Examples:

2GB => 2,000,000,000 bytes
2000000 => 2,048,000,000 bytes

4 hours ago, bonienl said:

If no suffix, a count of 1024-byte blocks is assumed.

Examples:

2GB => 2,000,000,000 bytes
2000000 => 2,048,000,000 bytes

 

Very interesting -- and definitely a lack of consistency !