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Bits vs Bytes, instead of Terabytes, should it be Tebibytes?

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Joe hailing from Beverly Hills, CA. neighborhood pointed out that the metric that we been using for Bytes, it might be the wrong measurement.

 

 

Instead of calling Terabytes, that the correct measurement is Tebibyte.

 

3000 (3x1000) Gigabytes = Terabytes (TB)

3072 (3x1024) Gigabytes = Tebibytes (TiB)

 

Tebibyte
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tebibyte

 

Thus, you will start seeing changes in the software and hardware out there.