Hit 8Tb limit - how to expand to 18T physical?

StephenB wrote:
Personally I think the power-of-10 units (TB) are more natural. My recollection is that power-of-2 (TiB) was a Microsoft hack (back in the DOS days) because they wanted to avoid division, and use a right shift instead. The answer is close if you are looking at KB (back in the floppy disk days), but not so close by the time you reach TB/TiB.

Yes, I was aware of that.

I disagree that powers of 10 are 'natural'. Everyone is used to using powers of 2 when talking about memory, and it's a long-accepted standard, as natural to a geek like me as counting from 0, or writing dates as yyyy-mm-dd ;)

I believe some disk manufacturers even use a mixture (or used to), i.e. 1Mb was once used to signify 1024000 bytes... now, that's just as silly as it can get, I reckon!