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Re:Computer Scientists’ Trivia by Symbiote on Thursday February 02, 2017 @06:19AM (#13549715)
Storage devices use the power of 10 units correctly.

My 6TB drive has 6001175126016 bytes.

Windows probably still reports that as 5.5TB, although many Linux GUI tools now correctly say 5.5TiB, or 6TB.

(Being clever should be encouraged!)

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Re:Computer Scientists’ Trivia by animal531 on Thursday February 02, 2017 @08:09AM (#13550232)
That's even worse, because they're intentionally preying on the ignorance in an attempt to make the devices appear to have more space than they actually do.
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