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Re: (very trivial) QUIZ --- When is 32GByte not equal to 32GByte?
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2020, 10:23:51 pm »
https://docs.ukcloud.com/articles/other/other-ref-gib.html

There’s GB and GiB... two different counting methods.
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Re: (very trivial) QUIZ --- When is 32GByte not equal to 32GByte?
« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2020, 01:19:29 pm »
GiB = 1024 ^ 3
GB = 1000 ^ 3

In Windows, GB = 1024 ^ 3

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Re: (very trivial) QUIZ --- When is 32GByte not equal to 32GByte?
« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2020, 02:13:06 pm »
When Western Digital sells a Hard Drive.  Calling it 32GB and the capacity is smaller than Maxtor's 32GB.
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