2026-11-05 13:58 UTC
Replies (17)
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@Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2026-11-05 14:56
Bootlickers will then argue it’s cool that the manufacturer screws you out of almost a hundred gigs.
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@Blibittyblah@futurology.today 2026-11-05 15:56
Mother decides she’s so tired of educating her responsibility that she stops educating them altogether and finds they are ultimately more controllable when they stop having knowledge. 🇺🇸🇷🇺🇨🇳
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@eager_eagle@lemmy.world 2026-11-05 16:05
That’s your OS using base 2 units and calling it TB. The drive ships with 1TB.
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@Hamknight@lemmy.world 2026-11-05 16:20
The old GiB vs GB
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@bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 2026-11-05 16:23
The OS uses 1024 and the drive manufacturers are using 1000. Which is why a 1TB drive shows 931GiB of capacity. (1024 GiB =1 TiB, 1024MiB =1 GiB, 1024KiB =1MiB, 1024 Bytes =1KiB) but the drive manufacturers using SI prefixes doing 1000 Bytes =1 KB, 1000 KB = 1MB, 1000MB = 1GB, 1000GB = 1TB. Thus the discrepancy.
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@liinux@pawb.social 2026-11-05 16:35
I really love how this really applied to basically everything, the more you know about Linux for example – the most you are happy that something worked instead of asking HOW it works I’m talking to you, RAM memory!
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@eah@programming.dev 2026-11-05 17:28
To make things more confusing, there’s a goofy formula which tells you the actual capacity of a given advertised capacity. A drive advertised as 1 TB will always have exactly 1,000,204,886,016 bytes. It helps to have consistency, but nobody seems to knows where the formula came from. superuser.com/…/why-does-my-500gb-hard-drive-have…
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@Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-11-05 20:12
Its great when you buy larger capacity drives and start to lose entire terabytes
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@Shartyfartblast@piefed.zip 2026-11-05 21:38
SSDs also have over-provisioning (which is not a bad thing imo)
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@bstix@feddit.dk 2026-11-05 21:47
Has anyone ever used the last byte on any hard disc in a successful manner? I mean not by just putting a too large file there, but something that actually utilized that final byte and having the machine still run flawlessly?
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@noobface@lemmy.world 2026-11-05 22:41
You will never hear me say gibibytes in public though. Telling on my nerdy ass self is for private conversations.
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@MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2026-11-07 09:26
Bytes sold as bit.
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@Hupf@feddit.org 2026-11-07 16:42
xkcd.com/394/
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@ulterno@programming.dev 2026-11-08 05:39
> 1TB to TiB 1 terabyte ≈ 0.9094947018 TiB Brought to you by libqualculate. Guess the middle guy is crying because he is wrong.
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@purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 2026-11-06 19:42
This is why the first large drive I bought was actually 1.5, so that I got to see that sweet T.
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@lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 2026-11-09 15:23
Now, why does my drive have 928GiB instead of 1TB or 1TiB? That I don’t know
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@Kolanaki@pawb.social 2026-11-09 18:29
There’s always gonna be a small little file on the drive telling the system how to use the drive or whatever. They should account for this, and make drives just that bit larger so you get the exact advertised capacity after that file is created.