1.44 MB was never 1.44 MB

Your drive says 1 TB. Your operating system says 931 GB. Neither one lied to you. Two prefixes share one spelling, and the label kept the flattering one. The split In December 1998 the International Electrotechnical Commission approved separate names for binary multiples. A kibibyte (KiB) is 2^10 = 1,024 bytes. A mebibyte (MiB) is 2^20 = 1,048,576. A gibibyte (GiB) is 2^30 = 1,073,741,824. The…