[OpenIndiana-discuss] Formula raidz storage space caclulation

[Timothy Coalson]

On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Jim Klimov <jimklimov at cos.ru> wrote:

>
> 1024 vs 1000 is another way around: a 3TB disk is
> 3000000000000 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 = 2.72Tb  or
> 3000000000000 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 = 2793.97Gb
>
> Times 9, and that amounts to 24.55Tb or 25145.7Gb
>
> (I am sometimes confused by "b" vs. "B" in such decimal vs. binary
> notations, so maybe that should have been written another way around)
>

Sorry, this is off topic, but this bothers me a little: "b" means bit, not
1024-flavored SI (as in 6Gbps SATA).  1024-flavored terabyte is officially
TiB, and said Tebibyte, though I haven't heard many people using it: see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terabyte and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terabit.

Tim