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.
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.
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”
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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?
since it’s 69GB it’s not cool, it’s nice
They should just be requires to use consistent units of measurement.