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Hard disk drive capacity
Greetings. I have reverted your edit to Hard disk drive because it was not factually correct. Hard drives have always been spec'd using powers of 1000, not powers of 1024. Every hard drive manufacturer includes in their specs and on their packaging statements such as "1 gigabyte = 1,000,000,000 bytes". For more information, please see []. Nor is this unique to hard drives. For example, "100 megabit/second" Ethernet refers to 100,000,000 bits/sec, not 100*1024*1024. In Wikipedia articles, this sometimes leaves us with a question as to which meanings to use in articles. This has been the subject of much discussion; the conclusion is written up at WP:MOSNUM#Quantities_of_bytes_and_bits: We use the conventions used by the majority of sources in the article. In an article about hard drives, that means we use the hard drive industry's convention, which means we use megabyte, gigabyte, etc., in their powers-of-1000 meanings. If you want to discuss or dispute this, please discuss it at talk:Hard disk drive. Thank you. Jeh (talk) 23:34, 2 November 2014 (UTC)