Why a 14 TB external drive appears to be 12.7 TB in size – the short explanation!

The marketing TB of a drive is based on multiples of 1000, so 14 TB is 14 x 1000 x 1000 x 1000 x 1000 = 14,000,000,000,000 bytes. Computers use the binary number system, so the computer’s view is based on 2^10 = 1024 instead, so 14 TiB (“tebibytes” or binary terabytes) = 1024 x…
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November 16, 2020 0