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[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The issue is in your software that displays the capacity (most likely windows).

You bought 2 TB SSD. You got 2 TB SSD. This is equivalent to 1.8 TiB (think of it like yards and meter). Windows shows you the capacity in TiB, but writes TB next to it.

Say you buy a 2.18 yard stick. You get a 2.2 yard stick, which is equivalent to 2 meter. Windows will tell you it's 2 yards long. Why? I don't know.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Is this like one is 1.000 and one is 1.024 (=2^10)?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Base 10 vs base 2