We all know that disk drive manufacturers have been conning us for years with their definition of what constitutes a gigabyte. There are two schools of thought; the binary GB, which is 1024x1024x1024 or 1,073,741,824 bytes and the decimal GB which is quoted as 1000x1000x1000 or 1 billion bytes. The difference is significant (7.4%) and [...]
This is the first of a series of posts looking at storage companies and their investment potential.
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Background
Seagate’s main business is the manufacture [...]
Josh’s recent posts have reminded me of a little piece of work I started but didn’t finish a few weeks ago.
I’ve been compiling a list of storage companies which are publicly traded and trying to determine which I feel are value for money as an investment.
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