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Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 19:50:47 -0500
From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
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Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>> On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:43:39 -0500, Dale wrote:
>>>
>>>> My /home is over 1Tb, that is Tb too. I'm not buying
>>>> one big enough for all that.
>>> 1Tb is only 125GB, well within the capacity of current SSDs :P
>>>
>>> Switching to an SSD, particularly on a laptop where you can't add a
>>> second drive, really helps you decide how much of the content of ~ you
>>> really need.
>>>
>>>
>> Mine is mostly videos and some smaller amount of pics. 1 Tb is 125Gb? 1Tb
>> is 1,000Gb or so. I would also be concerned about the cost of one that
>> large too.
>>
>> Confused.
> Watch out for the "b" vs "B"... bits-vs-bytes :)
>
>
I always use the same as what is specified on the drive itself to
prevent just that sort of confusion. I also go by the human readable
output of df as well. Sometimes du if needed.
Changing the case of the b around is not going to change what space my
data consumes or what a drive can hold.
Dale
:-) :-)
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