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Comment on How come manufacturers use base 10 units when calculating the space of a hard drive? Giving you 931GB per TB Hard Drive. Why not advertise the number windows reads?

ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

This problem basically stems from the issue that Windows displays Mebibyte/Gibibyte vales, but falsely calls them MB/GB instead of the correct MiB/GiB, for whatever reason.

This has been an issue for decades and I don’t think it ever got addressed.

My guess is they don’t want to irritate users not only with the “wrong” menory size, but also an abbreviation they don’t know.

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calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

for whatever reason

Windows is basically older than the "Xbibyte"s.

Not saying that they shouldn’t switch. But there is a reason.

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expletivedeleted@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
And you are correct, and to add to it, your formatting information also takes up space. But your point is far more pertinent.

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