>"8TB" hard drive>actually 7.27TB>oh but its 8 trillion byes! 8TB!>with drives larger than 10TB you can actually lose entire terabyteshow is this not considered false advertising? if you pulled this bullshit with anything else you'd be sued immediately.>inb4 kibibyte isnt kilobytea made up nonsense word doesn't change the fact that its false advertising.
>>107674811 >>107675364 >>107679745
>>107679916retard
>>107679942if you want me to treat kibibyte as a real word, it shouldnt sound like the deranged muttering of a braindead retard.
>>107679916When I buy a drive I'm buying 8TB not 8TiB.How can you be this retarded and cry about a non issue ?You paid for 8TB and got 8TB.No one cares if you actually wanted 8TiB.retard
>>107680128>>107680090
>>107680090IEC niggerbytes aren't real words, no.But being a human, you should be able to understand context - "your mom likes watching BBC" has multiple meanings depending on such.If you can't, you have a mind that works more like a prey animal than a man, and I recommend rope.
>>107680128kilobyte used to refer to 1024 (2^10) bytes until fairly recently and now you have a bunch of onions redditors going "actually that's a kibibyte because so and so said so 10 years ago"I will never use 'kibibyte,' 1024 bytes = 1 kilobyte and that's that. These are computers, using 1000 is retarded.
>>107680419JEDEC and other organizations that define the computing standards agree, a kilobyte is 1024 bytes
>>107680419That's fair enough, and indeed mostly the way I think.But - and its a big but - since the first 5MB ST-506 rolled off the production line, they've been measuring disk size in decimal, and they've always been up-front about this with "1MB = 1,000,000 bytes" proudly displayed on them.
>>107680144i never said i dont get that, but i still think its retarded and false advertising."2TB = 1.81TiB" is accurate according to the set standards, yeah, but the vast majority of people either use windows (which uses 1028 under a KB format) or just dont know of the difference.not to mention how a 1028 system just makes more sense since we're talking about binary computers.the word that sounds real should go with the optimal measurement system, and the made up nonsense word should go with the nonsensical system>inb4 DOOD 1000 MAKES SENSE! ITS FLAT!!!not for computers, 1028 does (see >>107680419)but if you're saying that a measurement system of 1000 makes sense for computers, you're probably the same kind of retard that thinks the temperature system humans use on a day to day basis should be the system for water instead of the system for humans.in fact actually thinking about it, the "kibi" nonsense was probably made up by some retarded that doesnt understand the fundamentals of computing.>one kilobyte is 2^10 bytes, one megabyte is 2^20, and so on.>to anyone that actually understands the basics and how computers work best in multiples of 2, this system makes perfect sense>now if you're a retard that doesn't understand, you'll only see the raw values of "kilo = 1028" and "mega = 1048576"so no, i will not accept your "kibble bites" nonsense, the real unit is kilobyte and it equals 1028.i WILL continue to accuse hard drive companies of false advertisement.
>>107680540You can do that, anon.But "Tera" has meant a trillion for the better part of a century.Drives have had "1MB/1GB/1TB = a million/billion/trillion bytes" written all over them since your parents were in diapers.It's not going to stick, no matter how much it hurts your feelings - others have tried.
>>107680622yeah, your kibble bite nonsense wont stick.
>>107680626It's not my nonsense - indeed, I think whichever nigger down at IEC headquarters who invented these "words" needs to have his entire family swinging from lamp posts as an example to the next ten generations not to try to normalise autism.But it doesn't change the fact that Tera means a trillion.
