Comment on Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes
mundane@feddit.nu 5 months agoAlso - hard drives, floppy disks, etc have always referred to their size in base 1000 numbers
That is not true. For a long time everything (computer related) was in the base 2 variants. Then the HD manufacturers changed so their drives would appear larger than they actually were (according to everyone’s notions of what kn/mb/gb meant). It was a marketing shrinkflation stunt.