Why Are Hard Drives Smaller Than Their Advertised Capacity?
1,320 views · Published 23 March 2013 · 1:09 · Indexed 27 September 2026
Channel: Technoguy3 · 2013 · Science & Technology
Why does your 1TB hard drive read as 931GB on your computer? Because 1 TB is metric, and your computer reads in binary. You may instead be looking for tebibytes (the official term for the system your computer uses), which is 1024 gibibytes. 1 terabyte, on the other hand, is simply 1000 gigabytes. Main Channel: http://youtube.com/nontechno Politics Channel: http://youtube.com/KallanPolitics Twitter: http://twitter.com/technoguy3 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Technoguy3 Swagbucks: http://swagbucks.com/refer/kallan Ebates: http://bit.ly/tTWKRw http://tipabsorb.com
