The Great Capacity Swindle

[JKD]

Welcome to the early 1990s ?

Seriously man...it's common knowledge that the decimal powers of ten are in use since then for storage...and the rest goes to formatting.

Although you did actually get 720kB on a floppy back in the day...7 was used for formatting.

[JKD]

If a chunk of it is used for other data then take that extra off the marketed capacity.

That'd be confusing...since it depends on operating system and file system.

Maybe an 'estimate of formatted capacity based on windows'...who knows? who cares? The cost per GB is insanely low even if you factor in the decimal vs. binary difference

My first Amiga HDD was 85MB and it cost hundreds of pounds..but I think they were decimal MB too