Inconsistent file size during Blag-140k-x86_64.iso download....

dragoraexpirafuego · 04-12-2015, 10:38 PM

Blag-140k-x86_64 iso was 697 MB according to google chrome as well as firefox while downloading, but the downloads folder in Mac OS X thinks it's 730.9 MB. What is going on here? the MD5 checks out, but it's certainly bizarre that the file size was not consistently the same. http://s22.postimg.org/xfzcyluz3/Scr...1_24_43_PM.png

veerain · 04-13-2015, 12:54 AM

Has md5sum pass it okay?

If the site provides torrent then no need to download it whole again. You can use rtorrent, aria2c or gtk-transmission to only get parts which are damaged.

The size difference may be due to MB or MiB representation.

fu9ar · 04-13-2015, 01:15 AM

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=697+MiB+to...ffsb&ia=answer

dragoraexpirafuego · 04-13-2015, 01:44 AM

wtf is the difference between MiB and MB??????

veerain · 04-13-2015, 06:35 AM

See wikipedia on Megabyte and Mebibyte.

sag47 · 04-13-2015, 07:38 AM

The difference is 10^6 bytes vs 2^20 bytes. The bytes are calculated by powers of two. Put another way is to multiply or divide by 1024 each time you want to convert a unit of KB, MB, GB, etc.

That is 1000*1000 vs 1024*1024.

dragoraexpirafuego · 04-13-2015, 10:28 AM

wait, why use base 10 when you're working with bits, which are binary (base 2) ???

fu9ar · 04-14-2015, 08:22 PM

Probably marketing. You can use MiB to make your drives *seem* bigger to idiots. Remember that 99 of technical marketing is about selling things to the ignorant masses.