>buy 1 terabyte hard drive >it's actually only 931

>>59679011
>What is disk formatting
>-The Thread

totally not sage-ing this, i swear

>>59679011
>1 terabyte is meant to be 1024 gigabytes
totally and completely false

1.10^12/1024^3

1 terabyte = 1000 gigabyte
1 tebibyte = 1024 gibibyte

Learn the difference

>>59679043
But you're wrong. It's not due to formatting, it's due to binary prefix incorrectly being called by their decimal. The OS is reporting GiB as GB, and the hard drive capacity is in fact GB. 1TB = 10^12 bytes / 1024^3 = 931GiB.

>>59679043
that would be some real shitty formatting

>>59679143
I wish M$ would

GiB != GB.

Blame Microsoft.

>>59679011
Different units are being used here.
You recognize 1TB equaling 1024GB because you're familiar with the JEDEC standards which are in wide colloquial use. Its a base 2 system.
The manufacture is using scientific base 10 where 1TB = 1000GB.

>>59679043
>look at this newfaggot

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>>59679450

MS hasn't done anything. Literally. Also it's way more companies than just MS who say 1KB = 1024 bytes. 4chan says the same thing. Even Google Chrome.

Come to think of it..

Apple claims their laptops have 8GB of ram, if they were actually consistent, it would say 8.59GB..

pic related

>>59679504
>The definitions of kilo, giga, and mega based on powers of two are included only to reflect common usage. IEEE/ASTM SI 10-1997 states "This practice frequently leads to confusion and is deprecated." Further confusion results from the popular use of the megabyte representing 1 024 000 bytes to define the capacity of the 1.44-MB high-density diskette. An alternative system is found in Amendment 2 to IEC 60027-2: Letter symbols to be used in electrical technology – Part 2.
t. JEDEC Standard 100B.01, page 8

So hard disks use GiB but we and everyone else call them GB.
Why?

>>59679682
The base 2 system is colloquially accepted, and is what most end users see in their operating system because its been carried over for legacy reasons.
The question is why hard drive manufacturers just didn't go with the flow and produce slightly larger platters since they're swimming against the current.

>>59679011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7tps8364ag

>>59679561
8GB isn't magically 8.59
I think you mean 8GiB

>>59681038

Apple is wrongly calling it 8GB of ram since that ram has more than 8,000,000,000 bytes, dumbass.

>>59679143

1 terabyte = 1024 gigabytes
1 gigabyte = 1024 megabytes
1 megabyte = 1024 kilobytes
1 kilobyte = 1024 bytes

Don't let drive makers fool you with this kibi, mebi, gibi crap. This is the way it's always been, and we shouldn't normalize their crooked, cost cutting behavior.

>>59679117
not according to anyone who actually matters

>>59679594
>Measuring a base 2 system in base 10
the IEEE is objectively wrong and an appeal to authority is not an argument

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck-pxXhS86Y

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>>59679594
>>59681451

B T F O
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Your operating system is defective.

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>>59679011
mandatory pic

>equating SI units to binary meanings

What the fuck are you doing nigger?

>>59679143
So cucked it's just sad.

>buy 1TB HDD
>expect it to be 1TiB
You're dumb

>>59679011
>his drive doesn't overprovision
Linus has a video too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DufUYmtVYYU