Why do HD manufactures mislead us

Hello. I'm want to have a food discussion, to clear up somethings.

I know there have been soem discussions on this in the past, but, I think some things just aren't clear.

Whay exactly is it that HD makers use decimal to show their final advertised size, when your Pc, be it Windows, a UNIX based system, Mac, or other, show the final value from Binary (ie 1KByte = 1024 Bytes.)

Why is it one has to go to the store, get what is advertised to be "400 GB", set it up, only to find it's really 372.529 GB instead?

(The MATH: 400,000,000,000 Bytes x (1024^3) = 372.529029846)

Yes, the HD makers have been doing this for decades now, but I must ask, if any OS (or bios for that matter) reports drive sizes based on Binary, why can't HD makers do the same, instead of creating confusion?

Does it not make sense to advertise the size as you would see it when it's connected to the computer?

Again, I know this topic has bean hashed out in countless venues before, I just feel somethings need to be cleared up, because I honestly feel like we are getting more screwed as hard drives are getting larger.

The way things are now, if they advertise 1000 gigs, you're only getting 931.3~, that's almost a 70 gigs less then you'd think you'd be getting. Again,isthis really fair?

-- Stan

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