RE: Adding a smaller drive

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> On 28/06/2009 22:22, Leslie Rhorer wrote:
> > 	I'm not confidant of that presumption.  I would not be surprised in
> > the least if some manufacturer produced a 1T drive with an actual 999.8G
> 
> If they did that, they'd be lying in describing it as a 1TB drive. I

	'Not as long as they do publish the actual size.

> wish they'd be more honest in the first place and sell them as 931GiB
> drives, or make real 1TiB drives, but the marketing literature does at
> least explain their definition of TB, GB etc.

	Which illustrates the point, I think.  In any case, it won't be the
end of the world, but it does make just one more thing to nag me.

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