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Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes
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this post was submitted on 27 Dec 2023
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This is the stupid af.
To me the bigger problem is the fact we don't have a written standard. Idc what people say, but if you buy a 10TB hard drive, then plug it in and the OS doesn't show 10TB, then it can be easy to blame the drive manufacturer when the OS is just using a different prefix quantity, but calling it the same. There should be some way to know exactly how many bytes there are on a drive before you buy it, and it should match when you plug it into your computer. I don't think that's crazy, but the article is a little overboard for that sentiment