On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Chris Smith wrote: > With spare drives and so on, the 7TB actually turned out to be 5TiB. You > really start to notice the innacuraccy of the common measurement vs SI > at that size. Are you referring to this?: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html kibi 1.0240e+03 mebi 1.0486e+06 gibi 1.0737e+09 tebi 1.0995e+12 pebi 1.1259e+15 exbi 1.1529e+18 It should only throw you off by 10% at the level of 1 TB. Maybe they were rounding up. Mike