and what's the deal with hard drives I mean you don't drive anywhere in them
the hardest thing about them is you buy a th000 gigaby drive put it in your
computer and you got 931 GB I mean what
were they shaving in there now I'm sure you guys have seen this before and the
discrepancy is caused by the fact that there are actually two different ways of
representing amounts of data decimal or base 10 is the more conventional way of
representing these numbers but with the Advent of modern Computing bin or base 2
has sprung up now back when data sizes were much smaller an approximate
equivalency was drawn between a decimal
kilobyte that is a th000 bytes and a
binary Kibby BTE which is
1,24 bytes sure why not it's all good
well in their defense the difference was only a couple perc so it didn't matter
this led to many cases of the incorrect
use of prefixes but if this has been going on for years why are we suddenly
noticing it now well customers never really cared when their 16 megabyte
thumb drives showed up as 15 megabytes in change you chocked it up to
inefficiencies in the formatting or rounding errors but check out this chart
right here this shows how much smaller your drive will be if the manufacturer
is calculating in decimal and the software is calculating in binary the
difference becomes greater gater and greater as capacities continue to
increase to make matters worse your hard
drive is manufactured and reported in decimal capacities but many operating
systems report the capacity in decimal but are actually calculating it in
binary and what that means is that that one tbte drive that Jerry Linus was
talking about at the beginning actually is exactly what it says it is it's 1,000
GB but it's being reported as
931 GB and I think we can all agree that
1,000 GB does not equal 931 gbes so
there have been product returns thanks for that there have even been lawsuits
about this but the reality of it is there's not much you can do about it and
once you look into it you'll find there are many discrepancies some where you're
getting less than you thought some like computer memory where you're actually
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