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Originally Posted by stumped
ok but bottom line is customer buys a 1TB drive, installs it, windows tells them they have ~930Mb, customer feels ripped off, writes a bad review or send it back...
the larger the drive, the more shocking that headline 8% discrepancy looks.
If kobo use the same measurements ( & I cant be bothered to check) , an empty 8GB Forma will actually be 7.3 GB, and that's before firmware etc takes its chunk
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8%? That would give a 920GB drive for a drive that was exactly 1,000,000,000,000 bytes of raw storage. The discrepancy also gets worse as you use larger drive size increments. KB vs KiB is 2.3%, MB vs. MiB is 4.6%, GB vs GiB is 6.9%, TB vs Tib is 9.1%, etc.
For a Forma, 7.45GB of raw storage—assuming the empty disk was exactly 8,000,000,000 bytes—minus the hidden partitions and bits and bobs that don't fit into the partitioning scheme comes close to the 6.73GB I see as the drive size.