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1,000,000,000 isn't even divisible by 4096, the sector size, so I'm not sure what you're expecting?
by garmaine 8y ago
1,000,000,000 isn't even divisible by 4096, the sector size, so I'm not sure what you're expecting?
- a1369209993 8y ago1'073'741'824 bytes, as (falsely) advertised.
- eMSF 8y agoNobody advertised as much. 1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes, and it's your own fault to consider otherwise. You're fighting a lost battle anyway, even (American) CS folk can't ruin metric prefixes in the long run, though it's a shame they tried.
- garmaine 8y agoNo, it's advertising 1,000,000,000 bytes. That's both the international and industrial standard. It's also what any reasonable person would expect the 'G' prefix to mean. Maybe you're thinking of 1GiB?
- wtallis 8y agoThe convention for how large a 1TB drive should be predates the use of 4096 byte sectors. And the box always says "1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes" but doesn't specify capacity as anything other than 1000GB or 1TB, meaning the most precise measurement printed on the product packaging is also the least accurate.