User talk:Erik Shirley

Your edits to Hard disk drive
Hi, I'm. I'm afraid I have had to revert your changes to Hard disk drive as they were factually incorrect. HDDs are spec'd and labeled in "decimal prefixes." More details are further down in the Hard disk drive article as well as in the Binary prefix article. In fact the latter will show you many other cases, such as tape capacities and data comm speeds, where K=1000. A "100 Mbps" Ethernet link, for example, really is running at 100,000,000 bits/second.

I see you are a new WP editor. When you come across something in WP that you think is wrong, it is usually a good idea to do a bit more research on the subject before making any "corrections." Of course, sometimes you really do find wrong info and correcting it is just fine. But re. hard drives and binary vs. decimal prefixes, we have been around and around the block on this many, many times, and the article is correct as it stands: In terms of the manufacturers' labeling, K=1000 and G=1,000,000,000. Really. Jeh (talk) 05:22, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I realize my mistake now. Since I do a little work in Java,etc. I am familiar with the 1024 (2^10) classification. And, yes, I know the difference between bits and bytes, especially in internet connections (1 byte=8 bits). I just looked up what you were talking about, and now realize the difference between binary/software storage and decimal/physical storage such as that on a HDD. Thank you for enlightening me on this topic; you learn something new everyday!