Decimal vs Binary for Measuring Storage as Fast as Possible

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Why is your new 1TB hard drive showing up as less than the 1TB capacity that was advertised?? This video explains it in about 2 minutes.

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Link to the chart at 1:20 of the video: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Binaryvdecimal.svg

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