How come manufacturers use base 10 units when calculating the space of a hard drive? Giving you 931GB per TB Hard Drive. Why not advertise the number windows reads?

Don_Dickle@lemmy.world · 13 days ago

How come manufacturers use base 10 units when calculating the space of a hard drive? Giving you 931GB per TB Hard Drive. Why not advertise the number windows reads?

unitedwithme@lemmy.today · 13 days ago

Exactly this! MiB and MB were used interchangeably 30+years ago and MB stuck probably because if was easier to say and remember. Plus, 1000 bytes vs 1024 bytes wasn’t a big difference, same with 1,000KB vs 1,024KB. I recall Windows XP seeing my 16GB flash drive as 14.5GB. Now my 16TB drives are “14.5TB”.