Conventions For Storage Capacity Values - Hitachi VSP G200 System Administration Manual

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Conventions for storage capacity values

Physical storage capacity values (for example, disk drive capacity) are
calculated based on the following values:
1 kilobyte (KB)
1 megabyte (MB)
1 gigabyte (GB)
1 terabyte (TB)
1 petabyte (PB)
1 exabyte (EB)
Logical capacity values (for example, logical device capacity, cache memory
capacity) are calculated based on the following values:
1 block
1 cylinder
1 KB
1 MB
1 GB
1 TB
1 PB
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1,000 (10
1,000 KB or 1,000
1,000 MB or 1,000
1,000 GB or 1,000
1,000 TB or 1,000
1,000 PB or 1,000
512 bytes
Mainframe: 870 KB
Open-systems:
• OPEN-V: 960 KB
• Others: 720 KB
1,024 (2
1,024 KB or 1,024
1,024 MB or 1,024
1,024 GB or 1,024
1,024 TB or 1,024
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