> It's absurd to claim they're doing this for any other reason beyond deceptive marketing. […] It's just bad and deceptive, and hard drive manufactures should n

> It's absurd to claim they're doing this for any other reason beyond deceptive marketing. […] It's just bad and deceptive, and hard drive manufactures should not be allowed to play these kinds of games. You should stop carrying the water for their shitty practices. The confusion of binary and decimal prefixes has been around for decades: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_binary_prefixes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_binary_prefixes This is not some recent conspiracy to boost profits or whatever.