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Ah, I see the light! Windows displays binary units but says it in base 10 without the i. Same with the individual files and their sizes. Well, I'm going to defragment my 931 GiB, err, I mean 1TB drive. Lol... Cool! Again, thanks for helping me understand the logic behind this...

Hi popatim and Paperdoc! Thanks for the replies! I cant see the big picture still. =( I can see stuffing 1000 bytes at a time until the 1TB is full -> 1000x1000x1000x1000 = 1TB But why not stuff 1024 bytes at a time until the 1TB is full -> 1024x1024x1024x1024 = 1TB minus the extra 24 bytes...

I know base 2 and base 10. I know computers like base 2 and humans like base 10. I just can't for some reason rap my head around the fact that SD cards, hard drives, SSD, etc, aren't bigger than whats advertised... And I know that hard drive manufacturers use decimal units but windows uses...