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Hah! That's a major pet peeve of mine. So, anyone who uses Windows has probably noticed at some point that "GB" "MB" and "KB" are the power-of-2 variants. When
by Teknoman117 4y ago
Hah! That's a major pet peeve of mine.
So, anyone who uses Windows has probably noticed at some point that "GB" "MB" and "KB" are the power-of-2 variants. Whenever I see one of those tech YouTubers say the formatted capacity of a 1 "TB" drive is 931 "GB" I just cringe. Most storage vendors use the power-of-10 definitions and Windows uses the power-of-2 definitions. 10^12 bytes / 2^30 = 931.32, so no, formatting your drive does not make 7% of the space just disappear.