Florencia (she/her) to Proton @lemmy.worldEnglish • 8 months agoHow many gigabytes are in a terabyte? Storage capacity explainedproton.meexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up114arrow-down10
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minus-square@TheUnicornOfPerfidy@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglish4•edit-28 months agoMaybe the astroturfing got me, but I thought we had different terms depending on whether we were counting in base ten or two e.g. https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tebibyte Edit: Oh it says that in the article. I should’ve kept reading.
minus-squareNeon 🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇪🇺🏳️⚧️🇹🇼🇮🇱🏳️🌈linkfedilinkEnglish2•8 months agoNo. Base 2 is a tibibyte and a gibibyte. A terrabyte and a Gigabyte are always base 10.
minus-square@TheUnicornOfPerfidy@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglish2•8 months agoHu. Why did you say “No”? You’re agreeing with me.
minus-squareNeon 🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇪🇺🏳️⚧️🇹🇼🇮🇱🏳️🌈linkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-28 months agoAh I thought you said that a terrabyte can be both base 10 and base 2. (which it can’t be, then it would be a tebibyte) In that case: yes, I agree with you.
Maybe the astroturfing got me, but I thought we had different terms depending on whether we were counting in base ten or two e.g. https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tebibyte
Edit: Oh it says that in the article. I should’ve kept reading.
No. Base 2 is a tibibyte and a gibibyte.
A terrabyte and a Gigabyte are always base 10.
Hu. Why did you say “No”? You’re agreeing with me.
Ah I thought you said that a terrabyte can be both base 10 and base 2. (which it can’t be, then it would be a tebibyte)
In that case: yes, I agree with you.