#disks that are exactly 1 terabyte will display as mysteriously missing a lot of storage space. because theyre literally using it wrong
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#explanation: metric usually uses powers of 10 but data is naturally binary. so theres disagreement over whether to measure data in powers of#1000 (like every other SI standardized unit) or 1024 (very close to 1000 for convenience; however naturally exactly accurate to data units)#usually powers of 1000 are measured with SI prefixes like kilobyte (kB) megabyte (MB) etc#while powers of 1024 are measured in kibibytes (kiB) mebibytes (MiB) etc#apple and some distros of linux like ubuntu choose to standardize on the si style. most other unixlike standardizes on binary style#as this excerpt says WINDOWS SPECIFICALLY AND EXCLUSIVELY chooses to standardize on binary style but displays in si units... which is why#disks that are exactly 1 terabyte will display as mysteriously missing a lot of storage space. because theyre literally using it wrong#(not exactly exclusively because RAM is also counted in binary units but referred to in decade units)#(matters less though because the differential is literally exponentially less)
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