2026-11-05 17:28 UTC
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…
Replies (3)
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@Colloidal@programming.dev 2026-11-05 17:36
Interesting.
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@toynbee@lemmy.world 2026-11-05 20:30
That genuinely sounds fascinating, but I can’t click “necessary cookies only” on my phone.
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@hexagonwin@lemmy.today 2026-11-05 23:33
really? i had two 1tb drives (different model) and for some reason their size was slightly different and one was smaller (as in a few bytes?) so i had to shrink the partition size to dd the data over.