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.
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.
This just proves my point further. Let me break the timeline down for you:
Computers are good at the power of 2, so we start using the number 1024 (2^10), and call it a “Megabyte” because it’s “close enough”
Someone points out that this technically is fraud
Instead of rectifying this, people invent an entirely new, entirely arbitrary range of measurements that don’t follow the SI standard - the mibibyte family
Hardware manufacturers take advantage of this discrepancy to make their products look better
OS devs stick to their guns, presumably only to avoid an outlash of “where did my storage go” from users
TL;DR: The “mibibye” family of measurements are an abomination
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.
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.
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.
“I don’t understand SI measurements but daddy Gates told me all the others are wrong and he’s the only one who cares for me”
fastfetch output :
I didn’t realise that Linus Torvalds changed his name…
… unless you think I specifically went out and bought a laptop that advertised a 913.43 GiB secondary drive?
This just proves my point further. Let me break the timeline down for you:
TL;DR: The “mibibye” family of measurements are an abomination
Now I understand why the 100 IQ guy up there is crying.
Because even after you see the literal ‘i’ in between, you will still call them the same.
It’s as if you bought a metric ton of grain just to then complain that is doesn’t match an imperial tonne.