About Size Representations; Related Topics - HP P2000 G3 Reference Manual

Table 6 Vdisk expansion by RAID level
RAID level Expansion capability
NRAID Cannot expand.
0, 3, 5, 6 You can add 1–4 disks at a time.
1 Cannot expand.
10 You can add 2 or 4 disks at a time.
50 You can add one sub-vdisk at a time. The added sub-vdisk must contain the same
number of disks as each of the existing sub-vdisks.

About size representations

In SMU panels, parameters such as names of users and volumes have a maximum length in bytes. ASCII
characters are 1 byte; most Latin (Western European) characters with diacritics are 2 bytes; most Asian
characters are 3 bytes.
Operating systems usually show volume size in base 2. Disk drives usually show size in base 10. Memory
(RAM and ROM) size is always shown in base 2. In SMU, the base for entry and display of storage-space
sizes can be set per user or per session. When entering storage-space sizes only, either base-2 or base- 1 0
units can be specified.
Table 7 Size representations in base 2 and base 10
Base 2
Unit
KiB (kibibyte)
MiB (mebibyte) 1,024
GiB (gibibyte)
TiB (tebibyte)
PiB (pebibyte)
EiB (exbibyte)
The locale setting determines the character used for the decimal (radix) point, as shown below.
Table 8 Decimal (radix) point character by locale
Language
English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean
Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish Comma (,)

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Base 10
Size in bytes Unit
1,024 KB (kilobyte)
2
MB (megabyte) 1,000
3
1,024 GB (gigabyte)
4
1,024 TB (terabyte)
5
1,024 PB (petabyte)
6
1,024 EB (exabyte)
Character Examples
Period (.)
on page 20
Size in bytes
1,000
2
3
1,000
4
1,000
5
1,000
6
1,000
146.81 GB
3.0 Gb/s
146,81 GB
3,0 Gb/s
Maximum disks
1
16
2
16
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