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I just got back from the store looking at hard drives (I'm running out of room for recording TV and making DVDs and I'm glad prices are low!).
But there was a guy there pretty mad about how they 'miss advertise' hard drive size. I guess he just bought a drive and is returning it since it was not 'as big as it said'. He was talking with the sales guy and the sales guy was just nodding not to get on the customers bad side. I didn't want to stay any longer since I was getting prices. But I thought it was pretty funny.
If only they knew the difference between decimal (base ten) and binary. Sure they are different numbers but it's the same value.
300,000,000,000 bytes = 300GB in decimal
That same value in binary would be 279GB. It's the same 300,000,000,000 bytes.
That would have saved that customer a trip and his temper.
Has anyone else seen people getting upset about how the industry advertises hard drive sizes?
But there was a guy there pretty mad about how they 'miss advertise' hard drive size. I guess he just bought a drive and is returning it since it was not 'as big as it said'. He was talking with the sales guy and the sales guy was just nodding not to get on the customers bad side. I didn't want to stay any longer since I was getting prices. But I thought it was pretty funny.
If only they knew the difference between decimal (base ten) and binary. Sure they are different numbers but it's the same value.
300,000,000,000 bytes = 300GB in decimal
That same value in binary would be 279GB. It's the same 300,000,000,000 bytes.
That would have saved that customer a trip and his temper.
Has anyone else seen people getting upset about how the industry advertises hard drive sizes?