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Recently, I was shopping for a hard drive at a big box store and tried to filter by capacity ... (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm not even sure how many chickens I can fit on my current hard drive, but it's probably more than the number of persons I can fit.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sigh. How many times do I have to keep telling people.. 0TB ≠ 0 TiB. One is a marketing gimmick that makes it look like you're getting more capacity than is actually available. You think you're getting 0TB when you're actually only getting 0TiB.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You do get 0 TB though not just 0 TiB. It's also a way better and proper way of measuring and is the ISO standard.

0 TB means 0 terabyte. Tera means trillion and with 0 terabytes you do get 0 trillion bytes (0e+12)