>1TB
>it's actually 931 GB
they can't keep getting away with this
>>53873339
1TB = 1000GB
1000GB = 931GiB
>>53873339
they can and they will
>what is a GiB
Look up the difference between a kibibyte vs a kilobyte and you will understand what "voodoo" they're using.
it is 1tb though. Windows just uses GiBs and TiBs though and shit
>>53873549
>1tb
1 ton-bit?
>>53873434
>GiB
>>53873496
>GiB
>>53873549
>GiB
>falling for the GiB meme
>>53873520
>kibibyte
>implying anyone outside of IT uses that turd of a word
>implying HDD manufacturers didn't lobby the IEC to redefine a kilobyte
>>53873712
a kilobyte = 1000 bytes. ever heard of SI prefixes?
>>53873739
But it's not 1000, it's 1024.
>>53873752
but kilo literally means 1 (one) 000 (thousand)
t. math major
>>53873339
BASE 2 =/= BASE 10
>>53873339
>2016
>still having issues understanding difference between base 10 and base 2
>babies first hard drive.
fucking retards.
>>53873739
You fucking turd, it used to be 1024 bytes until the IEC redefined it in 1998 because of the HDD manufacturers.
OS X Can display drives as their "advertised" size, I don't understand why windows/Linux don't do the same.
>>53873792
because that number is only useful for advertising, computers use base2 everywhere
>>53873434
>>53873496
>>53873549
>GiB
>TiB
NORMIES GET OUT
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>53873770
Every base is base 10
>>53873689
>not advocating a term that would lessen ambiguity
Sick dood
>>53873434
>1000GB = 931GiB
>SSD have to provision a shit ton of spare cells
>Falling for the SSD meme
HDD master race
>>53873339
Hey dickhead, government snooping programs take up space you selfish cunt.
>>53873339
>>53873339
>>53874302
kek
>>53873791
breaking news, a kilometer is 1024 meters
>>53873339
>>53873770
>math major
>retarded
Seems like now those two are not mutually exclusive anymore
if you are so worried about 70GB you should buy a bigger hharddrive. Or were you gonna operate it at 93% capacity?
>>53873339
Are these external WDs actually good?
>mfw hearing someone actually say "mebibyte" IRL
do you people realize how actually mentally challenged you sound? it literally sounds like a potato trying to say megabyte
>>53873339
>>53874283
>up to
>master race
>>53873689
>meme
I hate current 4chan and its insistence that everything is a fucking meme.
There are 1 000 000 000 sets of 8 bits.
>>53875207
>falling for the 4chan meme
:^)
>>53875207
>falling for the meme meme
>>53874283
a friend and i each built comps with a pair of velociraptors in raid 0 around the same time. all 4 drives failed within a 8 months of operation.
>>53875218
>>53875233
My sides
>>53875317
(you)
>>53873339
>buys a trillion byte hard drive
>complains because it shows a trillion bytes in a different format
>>53875207
It's just /g/. This board isn't actually more knowledgeable about technology, it's just more obsessed with tech while maintaining a normie level of understanding of it.
>>53875639
Sad but true. I'm not even at full power level sys admin level but due to my job I know a shitload about storage and I get retards left and right who just try to shit over anything said.
Enjoy your shitty backblaze blogs where they use desktop drives in server environments faggots
>>53876050
>Enjoy your shitty backblaze blogs where they use desktop drives in server environments faggots
I'm enjoying this blogs as they hard test HDDs, so we can know which HDD will last longer in easy normie environment.
>>53875244
Not sure if they're optimized for raid 0.
>>53873339
Why don't they just make a 1069GB drive?
>>53873791
>yuo must choose
>retarded measuring system that doesn't make sense
>or beeutiful standardized system that actually makes sense and is compatible with the Si system
HURR 1024 MASTER RACE
>>53873339
>320GB hdd
>actually ~295GB
this is worse
Hey guys i have a question.
I want to get a ssd but fot that i gotta change the z170 mobo im gonna buy to a h110. Money issues.
Are any of you familiar whit this chipset mobos? Ga h110m-a its the one.
Wil it worth it? O should i go z170 an buy a ssd later. In a couple of months
>>53873434
more like GiB moneyz am I right?
>>53875244
Had mine for 3 years now, Still a great drive. Did he use to throw his rig around or something?
>>53874302
>Intel Kilobyte
>Calculated on Pentium FPU
Dank blast from the past
>>53879411
Its base 2 and makes perfect sense.
Or can you only think in base 10¿
>>53873339
wuut?
>>53873689
>falling for the not killing yourself meme
>>53873339
> being retarded
> not knowing simple math
> It must be corporations taking advantage of us
>>53882822
There are inky 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't
Why is the capacity of storage media always some rounded off number anyways?
Wouldn't it make sense if they just designed the best harddrive they could possibly make and it happens to be something totally random sounding like "7.43TB" because they wanted to give you the most they could instead of rounding it down to 7TB total.
>>53873339
has no one mentioned that formatting a drive assigns space to the directory tree? and usually some error correction spare blocks?
>>53873339
>mum gets a tablet from ISP promotion
>advertised as 4GB storage
>it's literally 1GB, with like 20MB of free space if you don't debloat it
>not really that much space after debloating either
They didn't get away with this
>>53873339
>falling for the storage-based jew
>>53884318
Those are the kind of chinktablets that sell on aliexpress for like $25. I bet it runs at 640x480, too.
>1 TB hard drive gives you 931 GB
>1 GB Ram gives you 1 GB Ram
>4.7 GB DVD gives you 4.37 GB
>700 MB CD gives you 700 MB
>>53884551
>>700 MB CD gives you 700 MB
700MB CDs would give you 650~MB unless you enabled overwrite which could cause some shitty players fail to read the final parts and could expand your storage past 700MB.
>>53884551
Last time I bought RAM it turned out to be in base 10
>>53884649
>700MB CDs would give you 650~MB
no you idiot
you could buy 650 or 700 MB CDs. 650 was the initial standard but later on they pretty much all became 700 MB and that was 700 actual MiB
>>53884412
I think it's a little bit higher, she's not going to use it for anything intensive, so no point in buying an iPad or some samshit for six hundrid dollarydoos
>>53884649
I'm sure I remember 930mb CDs for sale.
>>53874658
Is a kibimeter a thing?
>>53873549
windows doesnt use GiB
linux uses GiB
>>53884059
More like they design a 6.7 TB HDD and jew it up to 7 TB
>this fucking thread
Do you fools really have nothing better to do?
>>53885693
Just as you
>>53885332
Linguistically, it is.
>>53885693
Then what the fuck are you doing here???
>>53875244
Have one still going from 2008
>>53885369
Windows does in fact use base 2. On Linux it's a clusterfuck and nobody ever knows what base is actually used
>>53885819
Is kibi- based on kibble? as in kibbles -n- bits
