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esult in death or serious injury.
Conventions for storage capacity values
Physical stor
age capacity values (for example, disk drive capacity) are calculated based
on the following values:
Physical capacity unit Value
1 kilobyte (KB) 1,000 (10
3
) b
ytes
1 megabyte (MB) 1,000 KB or 1,000
2
bytes
1 gigabyte (GB) 1,000 MB or 1,000
3
bytes
1 terabyte (TB) 1,000 GB or 1,000
4
bytes
1 petabyte (PB) 1,000 TB or 1,000
5
bytes
1 exabyte (EB) 1,000 PB or 1,000
6
bytes
Logical capacity values (for example, logical device capacity, cache memory capacity) are
calculated based on the follo
wing values:
Logical capacity unit Value
1 block 512 bytes
1 cylinder Mainframe: 870 KB
Open-systems:
â–
OPEN-V: 960 KB
â–
Others: 720 KB
1 KB 1,024 (2
10
) b
ytes
1 MB 1,024 KB or 1,024
2
bytes
1 GB 1,024 MB or 1,024
3
bytes
1 TB 1,024 GB or 1,024
4
bytes
1 PB 1,024 TB or 1,024
5
bytes
1 EB 1,024 PB or 1,024
6
bytes
Conventions for storage capacity values
Preface
System Administrator Guide for VSP Gx00 models and VSP Fx00 models 16