WTF I Just Lost 10 Gigs On My New 120 HD?

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largedarryl said:

Vectorferret said:
The bigger the drive gets the bigger the gap between GB and GiB becomes. You see, the drive capacities are listed as 1 KB = 1000 Bytes, 1 MB = 1000 KB etc. The OS (whether computer or console) uses 1 KB = 1024 Bytes. 1 MB = 1024 KB etc. So the bigger the drive gets, the bigger the difference between the OS scale and the drive makers scale. It has been propsed to rename the 1024 units to KiB, MiB etc but only Linux has actually done this, and drive makers certainly don't want to use it since they use the difference to make drives seem bigger than they really are.

When did 1KB become 1000 Bytes.  Did I miss a memo or something, but in electronics never has 1KB been equal to 1000B.

dont worry, they are computer illiterate so its understandable they dont have a clue what they are talking about.