Comment Comment by seanp2k2 Hard drive manufacturers have been doing this for decades. This is why the “80GB” drives were 74.5GB in Windows.It’s more complicated with SSDs: https://www.anandtech.com/show/2829/7EDIT: the official “kibibyte” was standardized in 1998: https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html so almost 20 years ago. Blame Windows and HDD mfgs for sticking with the SI definitions. parent seanp2k2 9 years ago
It’s more complicated with SSDs: https://www.anandtech.com/show/2829/7
EDIT: the official “kibibyte” was standardized in 1998: https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html so almost 20 years ago. Blame Windows and HDD mfgs for sticking with the SI definitions.