The little 9 next to gas prices❌ Little 9 next to ram prices ✅
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meghana_bobal1 month, 2 weeks ago
Finally i know why do i have 850 gb instead of 1tb
maanaszachariah601 month, 2 weeks ago
What's the biggest drive you own??
sarah_wallace1 month, 2 weeks ago
It genuinely feels criminal
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dalton_gentry1 month, 2 weeks ago
Wait, so the manufacturers are lying? I thought it genuinely is 1,000 GBs, and the closest thing computers can get to is 1,024, so they end up rounding.
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allenanderson4041 month, 2 weeks ago
I was just researching this yesterday lol.
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tony_johnson1 month, 2 weeks ago
"10 is 10. 9 isn't 10, Zach!" 🗣🔥🔥
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joão.costa1 month, 2 weeks ago
*Simple explanation if you didn't understand:* The "TB" on the product listing and the "TB" in Windows represent a slightly different number of bytes. Like "one petametre" and "0.1 light years" (except the latter does not sound the same) .
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aliciabloom161 month, 2 weeks ago
After years, Windows is tricking me? The whole TIME?!
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madeleinedelahaye6391 month, 2 weeks ago
the little 9 is a MILL... a old plastic coin used when u could BREAK A PENNY... was used for TAXES... Taxes and gas is were we see the number... but the coin is gone Just like how we killed the penny in January. But still charge pennies in digital transactions.
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joão.costa1 month, 2 weeks ago
Yeah, storage labeled on the packaging is misleading, but it also depends on what filesystem you format the drive at. NTFS is different on measuring disk space compared to ext, xfs and btrfs
dagmarcascade311 month, 2 weeks ago
For anyone wondering what the little 9 next to gas prices is. It's the mill price (Dollar, Cents, Mills), the smallest unit in the US Dollar System which is equal to 1/10 of a cent or 1/1000 of a dollar, and since the mill coin hasn't been made since 1857 (1960s for local and state governments), it rounds the price to the next cent.
priya_ghose1 month, 2 weeks ago
The 0.99 makes you think it's a lot less that it actually is ik it's weird because 0.99 but it's a marketing trick
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cheyenne_brown1 month, 2 weeks ago
Also, sometimes manufacturers put the unformatted capacity so when you have to format the drive to use it (if it isn't already formatted) you lose a little bit of space there as well
gerolfechoing171 month, 2 weeks ago
PCPapa I finally built a gaming PC what are the first things I should do. It's running Arch btw
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leon_williams1 month, 2 weeks ago
Oh wait till you hear about SYSTEM PARTITIONS
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jilllewis3301 month, 2 weeks ago
It IS 10 terabytes. For example, if you plugged it into a Mac or I guess some Linux distros it would appear as a full 10 TB drive. Windows calculates a kilobyte as 1024 bytes, a megabyte as 1024 kilobytes and so on, which is wrong because those would then become gibibytes, not gigabytes. This issue was never fixed
The little 9 next to gas prices❌ Little 9 next to ram prices ✅
Finally i know why do i have 850 gb instead of 1tb
What's the biggest drive you own??
It genuinely feels criminal
Wait, so the manufacturers are lying? I thought it genuinely is 1,000 GBs, and the closest thing computers can get to is 1,024, so they end up rounding.
I was just researching this yesterday lol.
"10 is 10. 9 isn't 10, Zach!" 🗣🔥🔥
*Simple explanation if you didn't understand:* The "TB" on the product listing and the "TB" in Windows represent a slightly different number of bytes. Like "one petametre" and "0.1 light years" (except the latter does not sound the same) .
After years, Windows is tricking me? The whole TIME?!
the little 9 is a MILL... a old plastic coin used when u could BREAK A PENNY... was used for TAXES... Taxes and gas is were we see the number... but the coin is gone Just like how we killed the penny in January. But still charge pennies in digital transactions.
Yeah, storage labeled on the packaging is misleading, but it also depends on what filesystem you format the drive at. NTFS is different on measuring disk space compared to ext, xfs and btrfs
For anyone wondering what the little 9 next to gas prices is. It's the mill price (Dollar, Cents, Mills), the smallest unit in the US Dollar System which is equal to 1/10 of a cent or 1/1000 of a dollar, and since the mill coin hasn't been made since 1857 (1960s for local and state governments), it rounds the price to the next cent.
The 0.99 makes you think it's a lot less that it actually is ik it's weird because 0.99 but it's a marketing trick
Also, sometimes manufacturers put the unformatted capacity so when you have to format the drive to use it (if it isn't already formatted) you lose a little bit of space there as well
PCPapa I finally built a gaming PC what are the first things I should do. It's running Arch btw
Oh wait till you hear about SYSTEM PARTITIONS
It IS 10 terabytes. For example, if you plugged it into a Mac or I guess some Linux distros it would appear as a full 10 TB drive. Windows calculates a kilobyte as 1024 bytes, a megabyte as 1024 kilobytes and so on, which is wrong because those would then become gibibytes, not gigabytes. This issue was never fixed
The ol' TB vs TiB distinction
What is the best monitor?
Honestly those kind of scams should be illegal