• vala@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    Hard drive manufactures would beg to differ lmao.

    “One TB? You mean 657GB?”

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      14 hours ago

      1 TB (tera, si prefix 103*4) is 0.9095TiB (tebi, 210*4) or 931.3 GiB

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          7 hours ago

          I’ve never seen a drive that’s actually smaller than advertised*, and I’ve seen a lot of drives believe me.

          * except scammy flash drives with “2TB” firmware and 2GB flash chips