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One of the responses in that discussion: > However, if you think about, it does make sense for the computer to use the same standard as the HD manufacturers.
by deaddodo 6y ago
One of the responses in that discussion:
> However, if you think about, it does make sense for the computer to use the same standard as the HD manufacturers.
No, it makes more sense for hard drive manufacturers to stop using a system that artificially inflates their disk size advertisements.
- grishka 6y ago1 MB = 1 million bytes. Formatted capacity less. Somehow they're getting away with this.
- deaddodo 6y agoThey obligatory HDD KMA disclaimer.
- hypertele-Xii 6y agoMeaning, there are 1 million bytes of storage, but pretty much all filesystems use some of those bytes to represent information about the files in addition to the files themselves. Hence, formatted, the resulting filesystem will have capacity less than that. You could, if you really wanted to, write 1 million raw bytes to the disk. But you'd need special software to read and write it, because de facto software expect there to be a master partitioning table or whatever it's called.
- grishka 6y agoI understand how file systems work, but then the properties window, in any OS, shows you the raw size anyway. Probably minus the tiniest fraction that the partition table occupies, but still. My point was that storage device manufacturers somehow get away with redefining units. No one else does this. Imagine if you bought a 1L bottle of milk, only to see in fine print that "1L = 800 ml".
- colejohnson66 6y agoIt’s more equivalent to “this package is sold by weight not volume”. You’re getting what you paid for (16 oz of cereal, not that sized box). They’re not redefining measurements (like 1L=800mL would do), just measuring it in a different way.