It’s Windows which displays binary prefixes incorrectly because of legacy reasons. You do get 2TB, but that’s ~1.8TiB. Windows just displays the wrong unit. All other major operating systems to my knowledge don’t make this mistake in GUI.
I think they got a good deal since they bought 2 terrabits(Tb) and got 1.8 terrabytes (TB). 2 Terrabits(Tb) is about 250GB.
AccuratePassion2572
Delete system 32 ya fools
DaGucka
because windows calls it Terabyte while using Tibibyte. 2 TB are 1.8TiB. Windows never changed the system that’s why everyone is using it wrongly. that change was made in the 80s or 90s and even some IT professors don’t know it.
KenzieTheCuddler
So, you actually bought around 2 trillion bytes of data (2×10^12) which can be represented in two usual ways: base 10 and base 2, base 10 would call that 2TB while base 2 would call that 1.8TiB (tebibytes)
Microsoft decided to use base 2 with the base 10 lexicon and i hate it
Sayyestononsense
gets worse the higher you go. My 10TB hard drive shows 9TB total available space
cosmic-001
I always assume a drive is smaller than advertized.
dhairy1080
I think extra 0.2 is for reserved space and cache files, it’s like dumping compress and other stuff, it’s also give u access to recover files from that dump first then rest of your HDD.. I heard /read somewhere.. Not 100% sure guys..
r16051studio
why can they make it 2.2tb? take their cut 0.2tb tax give us 2tb.
no_filter91
Is that not because the os has to be stored?
doomenguin
So, you are actually getting 2 TB but operating system like Windows or Linux will show them in units of TiB. The difference is that TB is in base 10 ( 1TB = 10^9 Bytes) while TiB is base 2 ( 1 TiB = 2^40 Bytes). I can’t do powers of 2 in my head easily, but when you plug it into a calculator you will find that 2^40 >10^9.
Basically, hardware manufacturers use TB because it’s better for marketing and most of their customers don’t have a clue what they are buying to begin with, they just see a bigger number, round number and they feel good about their purchase.
RZ_1911
For bigger disappointment buy 18tb and more hard drive
18tb after formatting – 16.3 🫡
TheCriticalGerman
It’s like car manufacturers and gas consumption
epicflex
I got a 5TB external that’s 4.54 smh
relevantusername2020
OP: shitposts
me: TIL
BusyDucks
It’s because Windows uses Tibibytes and Gibibytes, which shows data slightly different. But windows shows them as Gigabytes and Terabyte without converting them for some reason. It’s like if I am in America, it’s 75 F outside but instead I say it’s 75 C instead
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Something something base 10 vs base 2. I don’t know why no one has ever bothered correcting this.
Human: 1TB = 1000,000,000,000 bytes
Computer: No bitch 1TB = 1099,511,627,776 bytes you only have 0.909TB
Windows :
Decimal VS Binary
https://preview.redd.it/8ezcpgpj3bvc1.jpeg?width=1091&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9da64b8edf2bac6ec04fc4cfd6398766c692f98b
It’s a CoD’s worth of stolen storage space.
It’s Windows which displays binary prefixes incorrectly because of legacy reasons. You do get 2TB, but that’s ~1.8TiB. Windows just displays the wrong unit. All other major operating systems to my knowledge don’t make this mistake in GUI.
[Enjoy](https://massive.io/file-transfer/gb-vs-gib-whats-the-difference/#:~:text=20%20GB%20Free-,GB%20vs%20GiB%3A%20So%20What%20is%20the%20Difference%3F,one%20GB%20equals%200.93%20GiB.)
It’s called math ya noobs.
I think they got a good deal since they bought 2 terrabits(Tb) and got 1.8 terrabytes (TB). 2 Terrabits(Tb) is about 250GB.
Delete system 32 ya fools
because windows calls it Terabyte while using Tibibyte. 2 TB are 1.8TiB. Windows never changed the system that’s why everyone is using it wrongly. that change was made in the 80s or 90s and even some IT professors don’t know it.
So, you actually bought around 2 trillion bytes of data (2×10^12) which can be represented in two usual ways: base 10 and base 2, base 10 would call that 2TB while base 2 would call that 1.8TiB (tebibytes)
Microsoft decided to use base 2 with the base 10 lexicon and i hate it
gets worse the higher you go. My 10TB hard drive shows 9TB total available space
I always assume a drive is smaller than advertized.
I think extra 0.2 is for reserved space and cache files, it’s like dumping compress and other stuff, it’s also give u access to recover files from that dump first then rest of your HDD.. I heard /read somewhere.. Not 100% sure guys..
why can they make it 2.2tb? take their cut 0.2tb tax give us 2tb.
Is that not because the os has to be stored?
So, you are actually getting 2 TB but operating system like Windows or Linux will show them in units of TiB. The difference is that TB is in base 10 ( 1TB = 10^9 Bytes) while TiB is base 2 ( 1 TiB = 2^40 Bytes). I can’t do powers of 2 in my head easily, but when you plug it into a calculator you will find that 2^40 >10^9.
Basically, hardware manufacturers use TB because it’s better for marketing and most of their customers don’t have a clue what they are buying to begin with, they just see a bigger number, round number and they feel good about their purchase.
For bigger disappointment buy 18tb and more hard drive
18tb after formatting – 16.3 🫡
It’s like car manufacturers and gas consumption
I got a 5TB external that’s 4.54 smh
OP: shitposts
me: TIL
It’s because Windows uses Tibibytes and Gibibytes, which shows data slightly different. But windows shows them as Gigabytes and Terabyte without converting them for some reason. It’s like if I am in America, it’s 75 F outside but instead I say it’s 75 C instead