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.
really? i had two 1tb drives (different model) and for some reason their size was slightly different and one was smaller (as in a few bytes?) so i had to shrink the partition size to dd the data over.
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.
https://superuser.com/questions/1037272/why-does-my-500gb-hard-drive-have-a-capacity-of-exactly-500-107-862-016-bytes
really? i had two 1tb drives (different model) and for some reason their size was slightly different and one was smaller (as in a few bytes?) so i had to shrink the partition size to dd the data over.
That genuinely sounds fascinating, but I can’t click “necessary cookies only” on my phone.
http://idema.org/?download=7934
Interesting.