In the wake of a lawsuit over "deceptive" hard-drive marketing in which it is alleged that hard-drive vendors mis-label the capacity of their products to make them seem larger than they really are, the tech site Wiebetech has published an easy-to-follow paper explaining the discrepancy. I wonder if it will be introduced as evidence in the hearing?
We've finally determined the math used by the operating system, which has converted
our drive from a capacity of 123.5GB to a capacity of 115.04GB. The mystery is solved.
This handy formula may be used by anyone for converting decimal GigaBytes to binary
GigaBytes (with decimal representation). The mathematical conversion works the other
way around as well, as shown below:115.GB x 1,073,741,824 = 123,522,415,614 decimal bytes
(assuming all digits of precision are used in the 115GB). (This allows conversion
from operating system GigaBytes to Hard Drive Manufacturer GigaBytes).
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