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What's the difference between a gigabyte and a gibibyte?
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Somehow I'm still not used to seeing an actual set behind the host for Techquickie.
Ikr? It's too easy on the eyes to feel right.
It feels like luxury Techquickie.
Power of editing mate
Plot twist: He is being green screened
Man...but the white bg hits different
This reminds me of how the computer industry calls it a "15 inch" laptop when it's clearly 15.6 inches.
We all lie when talking about inches.
Why don't they just say 16 in
or how some people refer to UHD as 4K, or 1440p as 2K
@@techhelpportalextras3007 My guess is marketing. 17in is for "big screen", 15in is for "portability", so they round down. Smaller number means more portable.
Or when people say that a laptop has or hasn't a "GPU" when they mean a dedicated GPU since every single computer with a graphical interface has a GPU.
Game (12gb)
launch game
Game is updating
Game (60gb)
GB* but whatever....
@Hellow yeah that's what GB stands for genius.
@@amashaziz2212 GiB*
@@SteelSkin667 That's Gibibyte, got gigabyte
@@amashaziz2212 I was being pedantic as well, since these are the same as far as your OS is concerned; They're just not labelled as such, except in some Linux distros.
2120: your 1 Exabyte Drive is 125 petabyte smaller than advertised.
Would actually be 135.8 petabytes smaller.
The answer is how much you can afford
Sure why not
Never gonna give you up
@@garemge RAND🅾️M
Sadly, that's the truth :'(
@@garemge r/iamveryrandom
@Denis that pfp, bruh
When you unwrap your sandwich and your dog is like "Gibibyte"!
underrated comment
.
Ahahahah epic
more likely your dog wants to DELETE your sandwich. LOL
Dogs don't speak lozer.
Q: How to solve this problem?
A: Maybe just use the correct units. That´s it. The best kind of correct is technically correct. Please be technically correct. It´s that easy. People listen to you.
Real answer: Expect the storage manufacturers to use the same units as _every one else_ in the computer industry, instead of a small group of people trying to make up new terms for units that have been used in the industry for decades.
@@darkridge by industry you mean microsoft?
@@pinkypromises714 Yes.
And manufacturers of: RAM, optical disks, optical disk drives, backup tapes, tape backup drives, floppy disks, floppy disk drives... Also, makers of other OS's, like Mac OS, UNIX, Linux, and others... Also older computer manufacturers, like Atari, Commodore, Tandy, IBM, and others... Not to mention developers of software like file managers, download managers, image or video editing software, or anything else that might need to display file sizes or storage space.
@@darkridge Modern Linux and apps uses the correct by default these days, only Windows and their apps cant do it because 'reasons'
@@pinkypromises714 Yes, currently some OS's and programs use the new units, but that is only because HD manufacturers selfishly chose to use decimal units in what was an otherwise completely binary ecosystem. It was only their muddying the waters that drove some people to create the new, nonsensical words in a misguided effort at clarification, when the only thing needed was to force the HD manufacturers to confirm to the rest of the industry.
So, now, some OS's use the new units and others don't. Some programs use them and others don't. Some manufacturers use them and others don't. Some people use them and others don't. If anything, the creation of the new units have just made things more confusing.
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More like “no” :(
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@@thedrumknight then what do you classify as a "real game" then?
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My little sister just walked up behind me and said that "the guy looks like captain Nemo from 20,000 leagues under the sea"
You mean cause he has dark hair and a beard, because that's really the only things I notice.
Considering the set, with the blue background, the "Greekish" pillars, yeah, I can see her reasoning.
playing "fast and loose" with definitions of prefixes had existed for quite some time. I vaguely recall an advert from the early 1980s for an 8-bit microcomputer system which claimed superiority over the competition because they had *over* 65,000 bytes of RAM while the competition only had 64K (using 1024 definition of "kilo" -- 64K is 65,536 bytes).
Have you heard of the band 1023 MB?
Of course not, they haven't had any gigs.
Oldie, but goodie
This is next level dad jokes.
1:46 It turned out to be nice, Taran! :)
Context?
@@ZNotFound taren asked about that animation on Twitter
@Elijah Reed damn, I deleted my Twitter.
As a Linux user, MiB and MB are a mess, becasue a lot of software (including windows) lists MiB as MB.
I agree they should all move to base 2 and get rid of the base 10 ones. I get why base 10 is used in product marketing but as all consumer computers use base 2 not base 10 it would be easier to only use base 2 in comments and variable return values.
We might be moving to a base 4 world when PCIe 5 comes around but consumer tech has yet to need gen 4 so gen 5 will just be a gimmick for consumers. Even if it is there the difference will be to small for us to notice.
the funny thing is if it wasn't for Windows no one would ever know the difference between the 2, and the average consumer would be buying things, and never know that the term has 2 different meanings. RAM is base 1024 still to this day, but harddrives they use base 1000 because "bigger number is better"
the funniest part is that SI doesn't even acknowledge the -bit or -byte as a metric base, so there is no absolute reason to require the prefixes to mean 1000, and the only thing that comes close to things that can be counted is the Mole (chemistry not the animal)
Linux user since 2003, I still consider Microsoft's attempt to list file size correct.
In other words, the -h switch for 'du' should be default.
@@yumri4 wtf are you talking about "moving to base 4"? That literally makes no sense. Base 4 is a completely different counting system and would require entirely rewiring how computers interpret data, and porting all software to an entirely new system.
@@yumri4 I disagree wholeheartedly kilo, mega, etc have a clearly defined meaning in the SI system, calling 1024 bytes a kilobyte was the original sin.
Translation: the tech industry as a whole agreed to measure storage by powers of 2... until one day the marketing department of a hard drive company said, "Hey, we can make our drives smaller and still call it a gigabyte!"
"As a whole" you mean Microsoft. Storage was on tape in characters per inch. Then it was on "disk" in 512 byte chunks and then counted in 1,000s of those. Which was weird. But, as you probably know, SI units have official names and sizes and those are all in 1,000s. Even bytes. If you want anything else they made new words for you. Kibibytes, Mebibytes, etc.
@@JonathanBriggs I don't need new words. The old ones are just fine. A KILOBYTE is 1024 bytes; always was, always will be. You'll notice that memory and hardware addresses use that terminology because they need to function a certain way that precludes shaving off space like a grocery store shrink ray.
Thank you, exactly.
I rememer one hdd company specify a GB as 1000 MB but they still calculated the MB as 1024 KB. They slowly tried to trick people, most of them were doing it not all though.
I still find it annoying when I install a 1Tb drive and only get around 970Gb instead, instead in the past, late 80s early 90s, when you got a 20Mb drive you'd end up with prix 21Mb capacity.
It's still hard to get used to for me, alas breath in breath out... Woosaah 🙏
i'd welcome manufacturers to include the exact capacity. always ending up with a little less after formatting has been annoying since forever
12.5% when it's in TB isn't a little anymore.
Though it's not as bad as the 3.5" floppy. That was 2MB before formatting, 1.44MB after.
They do. They also can't assume to know what file system or OS will be used on it which will change how much is actually usable afterwards. Windows uses GB when it should be GiB too. Basically Windows reports the wrong units, the drive makers don't. Most flavours of Linux, UNIX and MacOS report as 1000MB = 1GB, Windows reports 1024MB as 1GB, when it should be 1024MiB = 1 GiB.
@@ErilynOfAnachronos Let's use the correct nomenclature here. The 3½" floppy could store 1.44 MiB...
OK, so I really hate the Kibibyte, Mebibyte, Gibibyte and Pebibyte. We're talking about computer storage, and it has always been specified using base 2. RAM memory is a perfect example. There is no such thing as a memory size that's a perfect base 10 in size. A Gigabyte of RAM is 1024 Megabyte, and a Megabyte is 1024 Kilobyte, and a Kilobyte is 1024 byte. There's no getting around this when talking about RAM memory. But if I want to store a Megabyte of memory to a disk it will take up 1.048576 Megabyte on the disk? Thank you for making things so easy for us!
I'm pretty sure the current situation came about because someone in the marketing department of some hard drive manufacturer figured out that if they specified the size of their drives using Megabyte and Gigabyte specified using base 10 then their drives would look bigger on paper. And the damage was done...
The funny part is that storage devices actually store the information in chunks that conform to the Base 2 units. It used to be that a sector on a HDD would store 512 bytes. Modern drives however use a sector size of 4096 bytes which just happen to be 4 KB (or KiB if you are anal-retentive) , a CD or DVD uses 2048 bytes per sector. Now guess what? SSD's are also using memory blocks that are sized using base 2.
So if everything in your computer is actually using the binary system and the memory and storage is always sized using base 2 units then why are drive manufacturers specifying their drives size using base 10 units?
What's next, memory manufacturers starting to specify the memory sizes using base 10? Don't you really want to install a couple of these new 8.59 GB memory modules?
@@TalesOfWar tell that to RAM manufacturers that still use 1024, and where -bit and -byte are not SI recognized (the closest is the chemistry Mole) there is no absolute reason to require it to mean 1000, and with the term meaning both things it means that both usages are correct. Windows just uses the same nomenclature for RAM as it does storage, or does your Linux machine report your 16GB or RAM as 17.16 GB ?
@@gardian06_85 it reports it in GiB. GB is almost never used by default on Linux.
The correct answer is “ never enough”
I misread this as "how much data do you REALLY *need*" I feel disappointed and click baited. Good video. Never heard of mebibytes.
same.
2:45 Gibibyte, Pebibyte. Boy, that escalated quickly.
Incorrect: This spaceship can go at a million kilometers per hour
Better: This spaceship can go at 1000 megameters per hour
Best: This spaceship can go a gigameter an hour
Y eS
How big is a clown's hard drive?
512 GiggleBytes
I don't get it
I told that joke on my discord and got kicked from the channel...
@@jpfidalgo7 that’s called admin abuse mate
For some reason I mispronounced it as JiggleByte but I guess I was thinking of JiggleBits too much.
Ahh yes I remember this conversation in school 20 years ago .....nice fresh content....lmao
Wish I went to your school.
how much space is there on a 3.5 flopp?
@@sopcannon not enough for even a BIOS update these days 😂
@@deminybs Our first hard drive inb our house was 20mb !
@@sopcannon 1.38MB
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S0 is the devil
1TB SSD, aka 930GB, minus Windows... so about ~890GB actually available
You mean 930GiB
@Nahid Islam its just Windows doesn’t use the “correct” prefixes
@@Avaryes actually no, 1GB is the standard definition of 1024MB by JEDEC spec and JEDEC is the wider industry standard that should be used, the issue is that you can't get drive manufacturers that they've been scamming people for 40 years
@@TheXlen JEDEC is hardly wider from SI. At the beginning it was more clear - lowercase k is 10^3, uppercase K is 2^10. But with bigger numbers it become mess, so now MiB, GiB and so on is introduced.
@@ivoivanov7407 the issue is MiB isn't used that often as it's annoying to write the "i" every time you're writing units
I still remember feeling betrayed when I bought my Toshiba Satellite laptop with it's advertised 640gb hard drive, and then booting up the laptop and finding out only 587gb were usable.
it still is 640gb, its the way its formatted that determines how much space it needs for the allocation table
@@barrybritcher It's 640x1000^3 as rated by the manufacturer. The OS (presuming Windows at least) shows it's 587x1024^3 as the way it will be read by the system and programs that don't lie to the user by rounding the numbers for neatness.
1x1000^4 ["1TB"] comes to roughly 931x1024^3 (and a LOT of remainder past the decimal point!) [931GiB].
I REALLY wish that long ago it would've become industry standard not to use the 1000s, and only the 1024s.
I'm the other way around, I've always seen a kilobyte as 1024 bytes, a megabyte as 1024 kilobytes, and a gigabyte as 1024 megabytes (or 1073741824 bytes), and interpreted that as more common. I always just saw the thousandfold increase as something hard drive manufacturers were doing. I hate that the industry has caved to that standard and we're now having to refer to them as kibi/mibi/gibibytes, etc.
Just be pessimistic and then if it's higher you'll have a pleasant surprise! 😀
And people say pessimissim is unrewarding.
Or just buy a bigger drive and expect it to be less and be happy
Literally just looked into this 1 month ago when I was needing to explain something to a ignorant friend of mine with a different video. Glad you guys finally made this video!
Relatable
How much space?
Not enough.
You beat me to it.
I think this is aimed at backing up the lady who said Gibibyte at AMD CES
Was anyone still awake at that point?
Actually, in the days back when, we said k-bytes and M-bytes to distinguish from kilo and Mega. G(iga) and T(era) haven't been a thing in those times. Not even in dreams... A 40 M-byte hard drive already was huge.
That sounds a lot better than kibibyte. These new terms just sound stupid
I just wish windows would display GiB and not GB, like it's literally a 1 letter change guys.
thank you!
at least to have the option in the control panel or somewhere to change the representation.
Why tho
@@olwethu9972 so that it accurately reports what units it's actually using.
@@taq154 what other unit is uses GB?
I really wish the entire hardware industry would display GB in powers of 2. It's literally just 0 letters change guys.
Second the push for smellovision. Thanks for some interesting tech info today.
Then in the future there will be a new "GIF vs 'JIF' war" around this and I'll love to watch
TL:DR - the terms "kibibyte," referring to 1024 bytes, and "kilobyte," referring to 1000 bytes, are used interchangeably. However, companies try to scam you out of the least amount of storage, so they use kilobytes legitimately
As the person paying for the drives, I just _love_ the fact that, if I put another 14TB drive in my server, I get another 12.7 TB of storage. I guess that missing 1.3 TB of space is the Hard Drive Mafia's cut.
is there really still a person who does not know about the existence of FBC14 algorithm?
Loved the purple hue around James hands while moving them, kinda magical
This is a video i needed right now ngl
They should tell us exactly how much space we're able to use instead of telling us how much space we have and some of it already being used by the software
A video explaining video game settings would be really good. Explaining people what setting does what and how it impacts a game and performance. Like, explaining SSR, Volumetric Effects, Lighting, etc.
That already exist, check nexus gaming and their setting video for cyberpunk 77.they go into detail. also other channels
Nice editing Taran! 👌
ISP loves marketing in bits , and loves billing you in bytes.
Sick Background beat bro ! Use it more often ...
They have been using it. For a while now.
@@ZNotFound Well, never noticed :(
I never knew manufacturers went back to the “exactly 1,000 smaller units” definition.
That's so god damn slimy.
As far as I know they never left.
In french, we do use the term bit, but a Byte is expressed as an octet, so the common french person uses the term Mo instead of MB (méga octet), as octet means 8 bits ). And our ISP's are using Mbps, which the average consumer does not understand, because they can market bigger numbers
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that's a lot of "Homework" storage
when you are so early that you see 7 "First" comments
Yes.
happens every time
when you are so early that you see 7 "when you are so early" comments
@@yuvrajsingh_11 and thus the when you are so early inception begins
when you are so late that you miss all the "when you are so early" comments
really interesting. thank you!
Bought a 8 terabyte hard drive a few months back cause I was sick of waiting days to re download stuff
Just use Linux you will get exact hard drive space just as its advertised
not really. Though Ext4 is better than NTFS in most cases, it's still needs some space like all file systems do.
Which will be perfectly cancelled out by your files being "larger". It's not like you can magically fit more data on the drive.
Litterly everyone: First
ah yes, 'litterly'.
@@PineappleForScale its literally as he says :D
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@@unknownplayer10k grammEr
2:45 "I'm bi- a lot of things, but KiB/MiB/GiB/PiB ain't one of them."
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To answer James's questions at the beginning. How much space your drive haves? Not enough. Are you sure? Yes.
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The problem is due to the fact that your OS (for most people Windows) measures data in bytes = powers of 2, not the bibyte unit. Here's the thing, for many of us who've been in tech for many years a byte will always be 8 bits and a kilobyte will always be 1024 bytes, a megabyte will always be 1024 KB and so on and we're NOT going to change. For us, the rest of the world needs to learn, not us.
While this is in fact elitist, (guilty as charged), guess who pays the bills of the younger engineers and IT out of college? By the time we all die off in 30+ years it'll be ingrained in those engineers to keep using the same nomenclature we're been using for decades. It's not going to change anytime soon. Some OS's like VMware ESXi DO use the new terms, but they're a minority. Windows still hasn't changed and considering Windows it what it is with backwards compatibility, good luck...
I agree this is a problem and it needs to be rectified, but since drive manufacturers are at odds with the literally everyone else on this point for being able to put bigger numbers on the products, we're basically at a stalemate.
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This is great, thank you.
I prefer the binary prefixes over decimal ones. Linux Debian-based distros use binary prefixes like GiB etc.
Windows 10 uses decimal prefixes when they’re really using binary ones which I tested by creating a dummy file of 1024^3 bytes = 1 GiB. Windows labeled it as “1 GB”.
This. Windows is the real problem here. Linux uses the binary sizes, MacOS uses decimal, and Windows uses binary, but reports it as decimal.
im just typing first to boost comment engagement!
I’m just commenting to boost engagement!
Never accepted the "bi" terms because they were invented for no good reason. Giga- and Mega- were perfectly fine in referring to bytes (2^3), until marketers decided to lie about capacity.
Great video! I just wish this video was made 12 years ago when I had an argument with my 10th grade business teacher over this exact topic. This would have given me an extra 5 marks on a test.
James has become my new fav at LMG. I love you too Riley!
when your so early there's more likes then views. and 10 first comments
first
Youre the actual first one to comment, nice
Hey, someone isnt lying!
This explanation omits the most important bit: Windows calculates and displays the capacity in Gibibyte but displays GB instead of GiB. Anything else behaves as expected. 1TB hard drives are sold with exactly 1TB of bytes. Then windows calculates 931 GiB but displays 931 GB. Linux and macOS don't do this weird mix.
Under the hood all three OSes are calculating in Binary Scale (or "iB"), but modern Linux & MacOS lie to the user and fudge the numbers they show so it's in Metric Scale to match the drive manufacturers. Windows sticks to its guns on reporting storage, RAM & ROM sizes in Binary Scale, just as it has when it was just a GUI laid over DOS (the period of Windows 1.0 through 3.11) which did everything in the Binary Scale the hardware actually works on.
yeah, I still remember getting mad when they were using GB to represent 1000 MB instead of 1024 MiB - given that that's how the filesystem does it. Not to mention GiB and MiB terms hadn't really been issued yet in the early days, or at least the terms weren't wall known and in use yet.
Your concern at 3:29 is significant. Regardless if, over time, the average size of a file stays the same in proportion to the size of drives, the percent difference between a PB and PiB (12%) is literally an order of magnitude greater than the percent difference between a TB and TiB (9.9%) similarly between a GB and GiB (7.3%) between a MB and MiB (4.8%), similarly with KB and KiB (2.4%). As we graduate to higher and higher storage expectations, the error between the base 10 and base 2 grows and grows. Eventually when we reach a Queccabyte (10^90 bytes), the Quecbibyte is actually two Queccabytes!
Thanks i knew about Michael Hill! He was my professor in Oxford and told us about FBC14 algorithm!
I had an idea for a Techquickie episode (though I'm not sure how long it would take). For major triple A games (like Cyberpunk 2077) which obviously need top of the line computers to run smoothly, what level of hardware do they need to develop such games? Do they use even more 'state of the art' equipment? (if so has Linus or any in the team played games on them?) or do they have other techniques to develop games using more standard equipment.
Thank you in advance and well done with such great content.
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Pretty easy: IT Guys typically use the 2^10/20/30/40 metric because it makes more sense than using 1000 as a prefix. Storage Manufactures use the metric that makes it sound better.
No average customer would pay more for a 1TiB drive than a 1TB drive simply because hardly anyone knows that you'd get almost 100GiB more storage.
If you want to find out the exact amount of bytes you get on your storage, look at the fine print.
They write down that _'this'_ much data is equal to _'that'_ amount of bytes.
And all you have to take into account now is that you'll lose a certain amount of data, depending on your file system of choice (FAT, NTFS, EXT, XFS, etc).
It really triggers me when people start redefined existing terms and making new terms when they can't understand what they are saying
For the average consumer this will probably not matter, but there are other reasons to express the prefixes in powers of 2. At least one is that it makes it way easier to calculate and work with these numbers. Want to know how many address lines you need for a 512 GiByte storage? Well just turn the number into a power of two: 512 = 2^9 and Gi = 2^10 and multiply those by using exponential rules: 2^9 * 2^10 = 2^19. There you have the needed address lines: 19. You can also use the ld function, but I cant do that in my head yet...
Since the prefixes are exponential the proportional difference increases with every step you go so in theory the issue will actually become more and more significant as we store more and more data. Even just going from Kilo to Peta takes the difference from 2.4% to 12.5%. That's from basically negligible to 1/8th.
Of course if storage size stops ballooning, which I think is expectable, this may never come to a head. We'll need to more than double the number of recognized prefixes before it becomes a 50% difference.
The thing that still confuses me is the bit-byte thing. I think it comes up more often when talking about networking/connection speeds. But whenever I hear byte (or bit) I usually get lost and I'm always wondering if whatever I'm looking at is apples to apples (for example compared to maybe something else I've seen previously) and yes, I realize this may be very simple to some people
I was always wondering about this back in the day. My friends even used to blame the stores and ask for refunds lol. The good old saying - IT AINT 4 TB !! ITS 3.6!! U LIED!!
I always just accepted that it gets less the more you buy and a 10 TB disk will be 9? Which will feel like a total ripoff lol.
I got around 30TBs right now, and imagine how much i can gain if the numbers were true and not off by soo much. Literally 1 more extra drive lol.
Your IT professor: Kilobyte is exactly 1024 bytes.
HDD manufacturers: Kilobyte is at most 1000 bytes. Likely less.
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With plc technology being released next year trends show that flash and disk based storage prices will converge. It’s insane you will be able to get a 2tb ssd for about 50 bucks. Can you just imagine being able to get a 16tb ssd for 350-400 dollars. This also means that everything on the internet will get a little bit faster as everyone switches there storage arrays from spinning platters to flash. Cars will be able to store detailed maps of entire cities, states, and countries for self driving. And Apple will be able to release a new iPod with a massive amount of storage that is actually fast. It would be so cool to have an updated version of the classic iPod with touch, thunderbolt 4, and a 4-16tb ssd.
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A little more on 4k being the minimum storage space of a sector on a drive: if a file only takes up 1k, it still takes up the entire sector meaning 3k is wasted. Sectors are clustered together for larger files, with the last sector in the chain suffering the waste. So if a file takes up 10k, that's 3 sectors (12k) with 2k wasted space in the last sector. Literally, a 3k file takes up less space (4k) than three 1k files (which take up 12k).
si the industry used to have consensus on how to market storage. they changed their mind somewhere around the 100GB /100GiB threshold, and its only gotten worse as capacity has grown
I got asked the following question in my computer systems exam:
How many bytes in a kilobyte?
My answer was 1000 bytes.
The "correct answer" was 1024 bytes.
I disputed this question, and the lecturer refused to acknowledge the difference and grant me the mark for the technically correct answer, saying "I would normally take a kilobyte as 1024 bytes, and so should you."
I would have argued that this difference is important enough to be taught and distinguished, but I left it at that and lost the mark.
PS: he's of an older generation, so I don't blame him for wanting to stick to the norms
ask him to google
1 kibibyte in kilobyte
On my newest PC build, I'm using a 500GB NVMe M.2 SSD for my OS and games I want to load as fast as possible, and I'm also still using my 1TB HDD 72OORPM from like 10 years ago for games.. no issues so far. At most I'll be replacing the hard drive with one with a bigger storage.
The amount of differences between a petabyte and a pebibyte is called 'pitybyte'
With my downloads an music folders being on the separate drive, my main ssd drive usage is always around 10%. My whole system with all my aps is taking up under 20gb. Until recently I did not even know the command to get drive usage
3:54 Damn it, Colton!
Hey, what's your favorite soda?
Mr. Pib.
Ah yes, Mr Pebibyte. I know him.
I always make sure my OS drive has at least 1 TB(SSD) space and another internal storage drive fr my apps, photos, files and various other apps, including drivers from time to time too (that drive is 1.8TB HDD).
The real question is, how much do you need? Cloud can't be the norm for everything! Looks like my next phone is going to be at least 256... And my PC HD has been 2TB for several years now! And it's not enough for a long time
Actually, the ratio XiB/XB when X is bigger and bigger (K, M, G, P, E, ...) gets also bigger and bigger. This just comes from the fact that going from MB to GB is x1000, while going from MiB to GiB is x1024. And it's the same for any consecutive prefix. So... Yeah, you can be sure they will be used a lot by manufacturers
giggle-byte -- humor 10^9 or 2^30 bytes in size
terror-byte -- extremely frightening thing 10^12 or 2^40 bytes in size
maybe-byte -- may or may not be 2^20 bytes in size
on a clear disk you can seek forever
A rise and fall of intel would be pretty interesting