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Are those Metric terabytes (1000^4), or in freedom units (1024^4)?
by semi-extrinsic 10y ago
Are those Metric terabytes (1000^4), or in freedom units (1024^4)?
- snerbles 10y agoShould be tebibytes (TiB) for the latter, though binary prefixes don't have much adoption outside of the software world. http://www.physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html http://www.physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
- wlesieutre 10y agoOr inside of the software world, for that matter.
- semi-extrinsic 10y agoHuh? 1024^4 is how Windows defines a terabyte, accordingly that's what most people think a terabyte is. OS X was the first OS to switch to 1000^4 with Snow Leopard (2009). Different Linux system tools use either standard.
- snerbles 10y agoReferring the abbreviation of "TiB" versus "TB" for 1024^4.