You will never hear me say gibibytes in public though. Telling on my nerdy ass self is for private conversations.
SSDs also have over-provisioning (which is not a bad thing imo)
Has anyone ever used the last byte on any hard disc in a successful manner?
I mean not by just putting a too large file there, but something that actually utilized that final byte and having the machine still run flawlessly?
Be the change you want to see, and report back 😅
I already did it on floppies.
I also attempted to program the entire AD&D rules as an Amiga Basic program. It ran well for a start, but then I noticed that the random generator always returned the same dice rolls. Turned out that the RAM was used up, so it couldn’t store the random value anywhere. The program was fine otherwise. Just out of ram.
Anyway, I miss the ingenuity of having too little space, more than I am impressed with the possibilities of having too much.
People simply did more with less. I want that to return. The bloat is obscene, and hopefully AI is going to break the balloon of it. Nobody really needs several gigabytes of code to run a 2 line program.
Its great when you buy larger capacity drives and start to lose entire terabytes
Technically you dont lose anything. Its like you buy a car with top speed in Kmh, but you see Mph when you drive.
Yeah I know it’s technically the correct use of terabyte vs tebibyte but it still feels bad when your 12TB drive is only 10.9TiB
Well it is too bad the Windows sucks. If only they had the money to make a proper OS that gives you the option to switch from binary to decimal like in Linux.
To make things more confusing, there’s a goofy formula which tells you the actual capacity of a given advertised capacity. A drive advertised as 1 TB will always have exactly 1,000,204,886,016 bytes. It helps to have consistency, but nobody seems to knows where the formula came from.
That genuinely sounds fascinating, but I can’t click “necessary cookies only” on my phone.
Interesting.
The OS uses 1024 and the drive manufacturers are using 1000.
Which is why a 1TB drive shows 931GiB of capacity. (1024 GiB =1 TiB, 1024MiB =1 GiB, 1024KiB =1MiB, 1024 Bytes =1KiB) but the drive manufacturers using SI prefixes doing 1000 Bytes =1 KB, 1000 KB = 1MB, 1000MB = 1GB, 1000GB = 1TB.
Thus the discrepancy.
Yeah:
1000 GB × 1000 × 1000 × 1000 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 = 931.32 GiB
It’s a sufficient explanation. I don’t know why the meme has the highest IQ person say “I don’t know”, unless the joke is that it’s easier than explaining…
At the beginning of time, K/M/G etc was based on 1024. This was considered a bad move by some people.
What I don’t get is memory packages don’t come in thousands, but in volumes dividable by 1024, so why the 1TB=1000 somethings…
The problem arises when the OS uses GiB but labels them GB, like Windows does.
Look at Mr. “100 IQ” over here
128 IQ*
And it gets more complicated when we get to the metadata and filesystem structure. So, you technically never get to store 931GB, I wonder what the (average) ratio of metadata to data is? 3:1?
The old GiB vs GB
Plus some programs showing space actually usable for your data (not unreasonable from user perspective), which means another chunk is gone as overhead from the file system.
Bootlickers will then argue it’s cool that the manufacturer screws you out of almost a hundred gigs.
The manufacturer is labeling the drive correctly as 1TB (1000GB, 10^(12)B). It’s Microsoft that incorrectly labels it as 931GB; it’s actually 931GiB (931 * 2^(30)B). A Mac will correctly show 1000GB and a Linux machine will correctly show 931GiB.
Told you guys.
“Bootlickers will blame a multi-trillion-dollar company”
Do you know what that word means?
If any company could get away with labelling their product to have 1/10th less and get away with it, they would. Usually consumer rights organisations fight to make it so that you get what is advertised.
The producers are using semantics to give less. I, as a customer want what I have been promised by the label.
If you’re interested in arguing the opposite, you’re anti-customer, and pro-ripoff.
Linux uses the unit defined by your locale, it may vary
I’ve seen GB sometimes on Linux, but they’re actual GB, not mislabeled GiB, so I don’t have a problem with it.
since it’s 69GB it’s not cool, it’s nice
They should just be requires to use consistent units of measurement.
That’s your OS using base 2 units and calling it TB. The drive ships with 1TB.
I really love how this really applied to basically everything, the more you know about Linux for example – the most you are happy that something worked instead of asking HOW it works
I’m talking to you, RAM memory!
FML you’re telling me I need Random Access Memory Memory now? 😩 Never getting a new pc.
is there something wrong with RAM on windows? iirc this was one of the things that worked normally for me.
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