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I refuse to say mebibyte or whatever alternative unit. 1024 bytes is one kilobyte, and 1000 kilobytes is not a useful unit (and so on). As far as being a conspi
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I refuse to say mebibyte or whatever alternative unit. 1024 bytes is one kilobyte, and 1000 kilobytes is not a useful unit (and so on). As far as being a conspiracy by hard drive manufacturers, Western Digital did settle the case rather than win: https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2006/06/7174-2/ https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2006/06/7174-2/
- userbinator 2y agospecifically their 80GB WD800VE [...] that had only 79,971,254,272 bytes (74.4GB) That's even less than the decimal size, so that's absolutely false advertising. I'm not surprised they settled.