The Picard Maneuver@startrek.websiteM to memes@lemmy.world · 1 year agoI've been robbed!startrek.websiteimagemessage-square113fedilinkarrow-up1894arrow-down128
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minus-squareSprokes@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up22arrow-down1·1 year agoImagine buying 14TB and find out that it is 12TB instead.
minus-squarecryostars@lemmyf.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up13·1 year agoI’ve always known the advertised space is larger than the actual space, but it was never quite the shock as it was when I recently bought an 18TB external drive with ~16 TB usable.
minus-squareStrawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down2·1 year ago18 “TB” with ~16 TiB usable 😞 they scammed us so hard they renamed TB and GB
minus-squarepsud@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoIt was so during the age of floppy discs. Our computers use TiB, marketers use TB to sell storage
minus-squareneonred@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoA 14 TB medium is always 14 TB, which is close to 12 TiB. Minus metadata of the filesystem and granularity of a allocation sector.
Imagine buying 14TB and find out that it is 12TB instead.
I’ve always known the advertised space is larger than the actual space, but it was never quite the shock as it was when I recently bought an 18TB external drive with ~16 TB usable.
18 “TB” with ~16 TiB usable 😞 they scammed us so hard they renamed TB and GB
It was so during the age of floppy discs. Our computers use TiB, marketers use TB to sell storage
A 14 TB medium is always 14 TB, which is close to 12 TiB. Minus metadata of the filesystem and granularity of a allocation sector.