Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t that just the scale? It’s not the metric system, there’s no meters in here, this could be used for bytes of data: gigabytes, terabytes…
I gotta say, I absolutely hate the way data storage is notated. Because colloquially, a _giga_byte is 1024 MB, but that’s actually a _gibi_byte, and a proper _giga_byte is only actually 1000 MB.
So storage sellers are technically accurate when they say they’re giving you a 1000 gigabytes of storage, but your operating system shows gibibytes as gigabytes, so you don’t actually have as much as you think. It’s like 7% less at the gigabyte level, and 10% at the terabyte level.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t that just the scale? It’s not the metric system, there’s no meters in here, this could be used for bytes of data: gigabytes, terabytes…
I gotta say, I absolutely hate the way data storage is notated. Because colloquially, a _giga_byte is 1024 MB, but that’s actually a _gibi_byte, and a proper _giga_byte is only actually 1000 MB.
So storage sellers are technically accurate when they say they’re giving you a 1000 gigabytes of storage, but your operating system shows gibibytes as gigabytes, so you don’t actually have as much as you think. It’s like 7% less at the gigabyte level, and 10% at the terabyte level.