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and what's the deal with hard drives I mean you don't drive anywhere in them

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the hardest thing about them is you buy a th000 gigaby drive put it in your

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computer and you got 931 GB I mean what

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were they shaving in there now I'm sure you guys have seen this before and the

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discrepancy is caused by the fact that there are actually two different ways of

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representing amounts of data decimal or base 10 is the more conventional way of

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representing these numbers but with the Advent of modern Computing bin or base 2

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has sprung up now back when data sizes were much smaller an approximate

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equivalency was drawn between a decimal

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kilobyte that is a th000 bytes and a

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binary Kibby BTE which is

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1,24 bytes sure why not it's all good

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well in their defense the difference was only a couple perc so it didn't matter

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this led to many cases of the incorrect

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use of prefixes but if this has been going on for years why are we suddenly

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noticing it now well customers never really cared when their 16 megabyte

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thumb drives showed up as 15 megabytes in change you chocked it up to

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inefficiencies in the formatting or rounding errors but check out this chart

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right here this shows how much smaller your drive will be if the manufacturer

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is calculating in decimal and the software is calculating in binary the

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difference becomes greater gater and greater as capacities continue to

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increase to make matters worse your hard

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drive is manufactured and reported in decimal capacities but many operating

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systems report the capacity in decimal but are actually calculating it in

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binary and what that means is that that one tbte drive that Jerry Linus was

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talking about at the beginning actually is exactly what it says it is it's 1,000

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GB but it's being reported as

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931 GB and I think we can all agree that

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1,000 GB does not equal 931 gbes so

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there have been product returns thanks for that there have even been lawsuits

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about this but the reality of it is there's not much you can do about it and

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once you look into it you'll find there are many discrepancies some where you're

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getting less than you thought some like computer memory where you're actually

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