You know what really pisses me off...

[a-4-year-old]

Why the heck would anyone ship a terabyte drive formatted in FAT32?

Ask WD back when I got my terrabyte external. point still stands that a manufacturer can build their hard drives to exactly a Tb of whatever format they please.

[croat1gamer]

They always put the small fonted:
1KB = 1000B; 1MB=1000KB; 1GB=1000MB; 1TB=1000GB.
Whereas the real amounts are:
1KB = 1024B; 1MB=1024KB; 1GB=1024MB; 1TB=1024GB.

Such stuff is always placed for marketing purposes, same as with internet speeds. 4Mbit sounds faster than 1MB, but its half of the latter one's speed. The random, non-computer experienced user will not notice that difference and go for the one which sounds faster.
Its the same effect as with the Y.99$ prices.

P.S.: 1024^3-1000^3 = 99511627776 bytes, which is 92.68 GB of data space.

[Xdada]

They always put the small fonted:
1KB = 1000B; 1MB=1000KB; 1GB=1000MB; 1TB=1000GB.
Whereas the real amounts are:
1KB = 1024B; 1MB=1024KB; 1GB=1024MB; 1TB=1024GB.

I'm afraid the "real" amounts, as in standardized (SI) amounts are actually the ones above, while the ones below should be (by IEC standard) KiB,MiB,GiB,TiB. By another standard (JEDEC's) KB (as opposed to kB),MB,GB (but not any units above those (e.g. TB)) may also be used as the equivalents of KiB,MiB,GiB. That was introduced due to common (false) usage of KB,MB,GB back then (JEDEC standardized it in 2002).

I was convinced myself before reading some wiki articles after first reading this topic a few days ago, as my memory apparently failed me, that K(B),M(B),G(B),T(B),... were the binary (exponents of 2) prefixes and that the Ki(B),Mi(B),Gi(B),... were the decimal prefixes. This should clear this up. It also describes the different usages in networking, storage, software products and elsewhere.