Comments on: What about Sony?

By: Ned Holbrook

Ned Holbrook — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:41:55 +0000

FWIW, the CD “longbox” was originally designed so retailers could repurpose their existing record bins by simply adding a divider, in which case a row of record storage could become two rows of CDs. It’s the same idea as making DVD cases the same height as VHS cassettes.

By: Jean-Daniel

Jean-Daniel — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:41:46 +0000

I think you can workaround this problem using the gpt terminal command top manually create your partition table.
I didn’t try as the last time I decided to format a drive using GPT, it was for my linux box and I did it using gnu parted.

By: scott

scott — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 03:23:01 +0000

I’m assuming the stuff on the back is there because of the size of the package, rather than causing it. All this could have easily been printed on a piece of very thin, folded paper stuck in with the device.

I’d guess that this is more a theft prevention issue, as well as a way to get more visual presence on the shelf. These were the two issues initially with CD long-boxes I believe.

By: Ölbaum

Ölbaum — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:07:11 +0000

And about the packaging: they’re a PITA and a SPOC. From now on, whenever I buy something in such a package, I will ask the cashier or at the customer support desk that they open it for me (less injuries and less trash for me).

By: Ölbaum

Ölbaum — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:05:14 +0000

Computers count a kilobyte as 1024 bytes. It’s convenient since they use powers of two. But legally, a kilo is 1000. So 8 GB is 8 x 10^9 bytes, but the computer will see it as 7.45 x 1024 x 1024 x 1024 bytes.

Recently, new units were introduced to try and lift this confusion. The kibibyte (kiB, 1024 bytes), mebibyte (MiB, 1024 x 1024 bytes) and gibibyte (GiB, 1024 x 1024 x 1024 bytes). So drive manufacturers use Gigabytes because it makes the number bigger and OSes use Gibibytes, but display them as GB instead of GiB because it’s what people have been using for years.