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Originally Posted by Demasu
because even with formatting, for some reason, all drives I've seen lately use literal figures in their size calculation. So instead of being 1 terabyte(10,099,511,627,776 bytes), you get 1 literal terabyte(which is 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. 931.32257 gigabytes as opposed to 1024).
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It's because officially the binary multiples (the 1024 ones) used by computer systems to measure are called gibibyte(GiB), tebibyte(TiB) and so forth but no one knows this nor is that terminology ever used. Then the people who manufacture the drives label them by counting with non-binary multiples because they get to put a bigger number on the box and the marketing department likes that.