Decimal Vs Binary in Measuring storage

[RavingSmurfGB]

Hi I watched the Techquickie video on decimal vs binary measuring storage a while a go and was wondering if there is any way to fix this problem. Also what does your computer calculate in?

 

My Situation:

I just bought I 32 GB San disk flash drive and it is only 28.8 GB also there is a similar situation with my 1 TB hard drive.

 

The video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3_JnetivIQ

[Tmh85]

Are you talking about a Byte vs a bit?

[RavingSmurfGB]

Are you talking about a Byte vs a bit?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3_JnetivIQ

[Altecice]

its because when drive manufacturers list a drive as 1TB they list it in our counting system (where 1000 bytes = 1 KB base 10 decimal) Windows however thinks 1KB = 1024Bytes(base 2 binary). so you "get less" storage... its just the drive manufacturers scamming you

 

Interesting side fact.

 

1024Bytes is known as a Kibibyte

1000Bytes is actually a Kilobyte but we don't tend to teach it like so.

[RavingSmurfGB]

its because when drive manufacturers list a drive as 1TB they list it in our counting system (where 1000 bytes = 1 KB base 10 decimal) Windows however thinks 1KB = 1024Bytes(base 2 binary). so you "get less" storage... its just the drive manufacturers scamming you

 

Interesting side fact.

 

1024Bytes is known as a Kibibyte

1000Bytes is actually a Kilobyte but we don't tend to teach it like so.

ok but is there anyway to make windows convert in binary

[Altecice]

nope.

[RavingSmurfGB]

[squirrl]

doing different conversions doesn't give you more storage. it doesnt matter if windows thinks you have 28.8 or 32GB, you'll still only be able to store the same amount of data on it, as the files that you want to save will go up in size accordingly. You'll just have to live with the wierd numbers 

[Glenwing]

Windows measures in binary units (GiB) but reports that it is using GB as the unit which it is not.  Hard drives say they are counting in GB and actually are counting in GB.  The number of actual bytes is still the same, just the number of "groups of bytes" is different because they are counting with different sized groups.