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[Conina]

SvennoJ said:

Conina said:

2 billion bytes IS a 2 TB drive / 2000 GB dive... a.k.a. 1.819 TiB drive or 1863 GiB drive.

I'm a programmer, TerraBytes are measured in base 2, a byte is 8 bits, a kilobyte is 1024 bytes 2 to the 10th power.

But at some point marketing switched it to base 10.

Sorry, but you as a programmer should know, that Terabytes, Gigabytes, Megabytes and Kilobytes are measured in base 10.

A kilogram is 1000 grams, a kilometer is 1000 meters, a kilohertz is 1000 hertz, a kilowatt is 1000 watts, a kiloton is 1000 tons... so why should a kilobyte be 1024 bytes instead of 1000 bytes?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units#Prefixes

Tebibytes, Gibibytes, Mebibytes and Kibibytes are measured in base 2.

Last edited by Conina - on 08 November 2024