http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte
Does anyone else think it's a blatant ripoff that hard drives are sold based on their gigabytes being one billion bytes? Even though computers make a gigabyte to be 1024^3 bytes? Therefore we're getting 93% of what we're paying for. I know this is old news, but it makes me sick. I wonder what would happen if the hard drive manufacturers were to be challenged in court (or if anyone has ever tried)?
Does anyone else think it's a blatant ripoff that hard drives are sold based on their gigabytes being one billion bytes? Even though computers make a gigabyte to be 1024^3 bytes? Therefore we're getting 93% of what we're paying for. I know this is old news, but it makes me sick. I wonder what would happen if the hard drive manufacturers were to be challenged in court (or if anyone has ever tried)?