Hence the accusation that OEM's are duping their customers ! In most parts of the world SI units are standard but for some reason the likes of Seagate/WD et al decided to have a field day & sell binary laden hard drives as decimal units in the sense that they falsely advertise(don't they
) 1024 bytes as 1K Bytes
Simple you don't go that far btw how does that imperial system help(or not) you outside of the US ?
On a 10KB drive, you are being sold a drive that can flip 80,000 bits (10,000 bytes) on the platters. There is no false advertising here. Only a misunderstanding on the part of consumer about the difference between a KB and a KiB.
Once plugged into a computer, it takes those 10,000 bytes and uses them, but labels it as 9.77 KB. Because someone, NOT the drive manufacturers but someone else, in the EARLY days decided that KiB was too hard, or was an extra character (and therefore an extra byte) that didn't need to be displayed. And since only nerds and engineers use computers, and will only ever be the ones to use computers, they'll surely know the difference.
It is similar to the issues that were supposed to be harbingers of our disaster 14 years ago. A decision made early on when resources were precious had the potential byte (heh) people in the ass many years later.
The point I was making about using SI prefixes is that, like I said, people don't say that Paris is 1.4 megameters from Lisbon, they say that Paris is 1400 kilometers from Lisbon. Computer and cell phones have introduced the higher SI prefixes into the lay lexicon, and they are basically the only ones that did.
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