Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 24 hours agoHow 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?message-squaremessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up124arrow-down10
arrow-up124arrow-down1message-squareHow 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 to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 24 hours agomessage-square6fedilink
minus-squarebetterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·24 hours agoIt’s not 931 GB, it’s 931 GiB. If there’s a choice between brand A’s 931 GiB drive and brand B’s 1 TB drive, which do you think will fly off the shelves faster?
minus-squareCort@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-24 hours agoI’m genuinely surprised that manufacturers use bytes instead of bits, the numbers could be 8x higher (like batteries listing mAh)
It’s not 931 GB, it’s 931 GiB. If there’s a choice between brand A’s 931 GiB drive and brand B’s 1 TB drive, which do you think will fly off the shelves faster?
I’m genuinely surprised that manufacturers use bytes instead of bits, the numbers could be 8x higher (like batteries listing mAh)