tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post6770570154472689263..comments2024-01-23T16:53:02.428+00:00Comments on Mark Thompson: Why Windows reports my 2TB drive as 1.81TBMark Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00744387583593537268noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-68758806847843113072014-03-13T09:19:51.658+00:002014-03-13T09:19:51.658+00:00Nice and very helpful information i have got from ...Nice and very helpful information i have got from your post. Even your whole blog is full of interesting information which is the great sign of a great blogger.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.theaffordablemarket.com/products/Acer-%252d-15.6%22-Touch%252dScreen-Laptop-%252d-4GB-Memory-%252d-500GB-Hard-Drive-%252d-Silky-Silver.html" title="Acer - 15.6" rel="nofollow">Acer - 15.6" Touch-Screen Laptop - 4GB Memory - 500GB Hard Drive - Silky Silver</a><br><br /><a href="http://www.theaffordablemarket.com/products/Acer-%252d-13.3%22-Aspire-Ultrabook-%252d-4-GB-Memory-and-256-GB-Solid-State-Drive.html" title="Acer - 13.3" rel="nofollow">Acer - 13.3" Aspire Ultrabook - 4 GB Memory and 256 GB Solid State Drive</a><br><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11880962866862076494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-18149279217480505022010-07-20T22:41:33.932+01:002010-07-20T22:41:33.932+01:00RAM, for utterly tedious technical reasons, has to...RAM, for utterly tedious technical reasons, has to be packaged in round number in binary, ie whole MiB / GiB.<br /><br />Disk storage doesn't, so it is correctly measured in GB / TB.<br /><br />Instead of showing two different, but similar sizes, OS writers prefer to use the binary-based units for both.<br /><br />Hard drive manufacturers, who don't need to use two different sizes, don't have that problem.Richard Gadsdenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10545595590359552775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-72990557447924700082010-07-20T16:06:16.754+01:002010-07-20T16:06:16.754+01:00Clearly it's quite sad for me to have understo...Clearly it's quite sad for me to have understood every word of that article, but I never understood what the problem was with having numbers to the power of 2.<br /><br />In general, people don't understand bits and bytes, but they don't need to; however I'm sure most understand that a GB is about 1000 times bigger than a MB and so on, and that's roughly close enough for the brain to comprehend.<br /><br />I think -bibytes should be abolished as all they do is allow manufactures to inflate their storage numbers.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03393990015279809953noreply@blogger.com