"One terabyte is equal to 1 trillion bytes of data. One gigabyte equals 1 billion bytes."
When actually:
One Terabyte = 1099511627776 bytes of data One Gigabyte = 1073741824 bytes of data One Megabyte = 1048576 bytes of data One Kilobyte = 1024 bytes of data
So what you have here is a 0.91Tb drive not a 1Tb drive as advertised.
If memory serves this whole 1Mb=1,000,000 bytes thing was started by Maxtor in the 90s to make their drives look bigger than the competition. This kind of math may be easier, but it's still incorrect with respect to HDD storage. Damn you Maxtor!
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"One terabyte is equal to 1 trillion bytes of data. One gigabyte equals 1 billion bytes."
When actually:
One Terabyte = 1099511627776 bytes of data
One Gigabyte = 1073741824 bytes of data
One Megabyte = 1048576 bytes of data
One Kilobyte = 1024 bytes of data
So what you have here is a 0.91Tb drive not a 1Tb drive as advertised.
If memory serves this whole 1Mb=1,000,000 bytes thing was started by Maxtor in the 90s to make their drives look bigger than the competition. This kind of math may be easier, but it's still incorrect with respect to HDD storage. Damn you Maxtor!
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