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http://www.hp.com

http://www.hp.com/go/storage

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http://www.hp.com/support/manuals

http://www.hp.com/support/downloads

http://www.hp.com/storage/whitepapers

Conventions for storage capacity values

HP XP storage systems use the following physical storage capacity values (also called disk drive
capacity) based on the following conventions.

Table 136 Physical storage capacity units

Value

Physical Capacity Unit

1,000 bytes

1 KB

1,000

2

bytes

1 MB

1,000

3

bytes

1 GB

1,000

4

bytes

1 TB

1,000

5

bytes

1 PB

1,000

6

bytes

1 EB

HP XP storage systems use logical storage capacity values (also called logical device capacity)
based on the following conventions.

Table 137 Logical storage capacity units

Value

Logical Capacity Unit

1,024 (2

10

) bytes

1 KB

1,024 KB or 1,024

2

bytes

1 MB

1,024 MB or 1,024

3

bytes

1 GB

1,024 GB or 1,024

4

bytes

1 TB

1,024 TB or 1,024

5

bytes

1 PB

1,024 PB or 1,024

6

bytes

1 EB

512 bytes

1 BLOCK

Typographic conventions

Table 138 Document conventions

Element

Convention

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