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Originally posted by Zuvio:
The actual size is really 1024GB, a device can't calculate wrongly.
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No it isn't, most hard drive manufacturers (including this one apparently) use the IEC definition of a gigabyte, which is defined as 10^9 bytes, so a terabyte would them be 10^12 bytes. The size isn't calculated incorrectly, its just the standard is weird. What you are describing would, according to IEC, actually be a "tebibyte" (1 TiB)
I'm not making this up. I believe that the ISO definition also uses the 10^9 Bytes definition of 1 GB. It is a rather stupid standard, but as far as hard drives it's what the manufacturers go with.