When did 1000 GB start being considered a TB? 1TB is 1024 GB, I just bought this damn Seagate drive and it says 1000GB on it. I know it's not much, but when you start seeing 4TB drives, 96GB of lost space is a shitload, especially when drives are smaller when formatted.
You bought a 1000GB drive, not a 1TB one.
>>54948821
Try installing gentoo to see if still says 1tb
>>54948821
Gigabyte =! Gigabit
>>54948843
Shit, you got me, but at least seagate was being honest, WD outright puts 1.0TB on it and when formatted it's like 931gb or some shit like that.
>>54948821
Yet another confusing metric and binary prefixes
>Metric
kilo - k - 10^3 - 1000
mega - M - 10^6 (1000k)
Etc.
>Binary
kibi - Ki - 2^10 - 1024
mebi - Mi 2^20 - (1024Ki)
Etc.
Just get an 8 TB one.
So what's the problem? Why can't they make a real 1000 or 1024 gigabyte hdd why stop in 9xx
>>54948857
Gigabyte =! Gibibyte, you mean.
why does my 3TB drive only have 2.7TB ? can i sue the company that does this?
>>54949189
No. It's because the computer counts it differently than humans
>>54949125
So that's what nvidia are using with their 3.5 cards?
>TFW running a sexy 5900 Barracuda LP with a true 1TB unformatted and good smart data.
Hard drive manufacturers have used powers-of-10 for a long time in their marketing materials despite that OSes report it as powers-of-two. This isn't anything new.
Welcome to binary math in terms that common folks can grasp, it's not bit-perfect and it doesn't have to be.
>>54949610
FUCKING CONSUMERFAGS! REEEEE!
>>54949244
No, they straight-up have 512MiB of slow VRAM on the 970 and only 3.5GiB at full speed.
>>54949125
Bits are not stored in decimal/metric. They're stored in binary. Using decimal numbers is not correct and is only done because the storage industry bribed and lobbied shit.
>>54949610
common folks had absolutely zero difficulty grasping bytes, kilobytes, megabytes and so on back before the industry attempted to re-fucking-define them like some kind of ministry of truth bullshit.
>>54948821
when hard drive makers realized that that makes their drives look bigger than they are.
This >>54949125 is an ugly and pointless contortion, we should just have a convention that if the context is computers, it means power-of-two and not power-of-ten, because there's never any reason to use power-of-ten in computing.
>>54949610
Hard drive math means you round down whenever you can for any reason.
>>54948821
>When did 1000 GB start being considered a TB?
1998, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibyte
It's so annoying selling selling less prduct for the same money, when you think about a small amount of capacity when shipping a shit ton of drives mean they save a lot of money, much like that stupid 1366x768 meme resolution.
>>54949274
Except it's not.
>>54949274
I was wrong in my conversion guys, google has fallen for the 1000gb Terabyte meme, my barracuda 1TB isn't even a fucking TB when it says so on the label, Fuck you seagate.
>>54949939
Kek. I realized at the same time.
>>54949716
>common folks had absolutely zero difficulty grasping bytes, kilobytes, megabytes and so on back before the industry attempted to re-fucking-define them like some kind of ministry of truth bullshit.
Work any sector where you commonly interact with "common folk", and you'll discover this to be not quite the case any more. You might also lose faith in humanity too.
>>54950207
Looking good, took me a while to find what bitrate to export my webms.
>>54950247
I just set -qmin and -qmax to 50 for everything
>>54949176
Why spend more money in manufacturing? Marketing saves you about 7% of the cost of the disk density
>>54949274
>Barracuda LP
>16.7 Days Uptime
That thing's gonna fail, Anon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lx1_HygVcM
>>54948821
mebibyte et al. (MiB...) is general use, and often refered to as kilobyte
megabyte et al. (MB ...) is only used by people selling memory
and internet service providers use megabit (Mb ...) et al.
>>54951441
>is only used by people selling memory
You mean storage memory...
no GPU/RAM makers use 1,000 bytes = 1 kb bs.
>>54949184
Yes, he was wrong. Gigabyte == Gigabit
>>54951521 A gigabit is an eighth of a gigabyte, you dumb fuck.
>>54951542
When will this meme end?
oh, it's this thread again
Because 1000gb is a round number in base 10 and 1024gb is a round number in base 2. You'll never get the full space of a disk since some of that space is used by your file system.
OSX is still the only OS that uses base 10 units meaning their OS reads 1 terabyte if you put in one of these drives where Loonigz and Windows would read 931 gb/gib
>>54948821
>When did 1000 GB start being considered a TB? 1TB is 1024 GB, I just bought this damn Seagate drive and it says 1000GB on it.
Hey, 1TB is a good size HDD to buy while dealing with this bullshit.
I bought a 640GB HDD 8 years ago and it only has 595GB available due to the same bullshit. that's nearly twice the loss with only a bit more than half the total size as you.
>>54951633
Yeah, because windows & linux are real nigga operating systems, not this fake ass bullshit from cupertino.
