A very common task in the IT industry is needing to convert between storage size units - bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes, etc. To make things even more complicated, the POSIX ...

This results in a loss of 2.4 percent of the drive space based on definitions, which would report that 1 kilobyte as described by the manufacturer as ~0.98 kilobytes as interpreted by the computer.

Making 4096 bytes the new standard Instead of storing 512-byte sectors, hard disks will start using 4096-byte sectors. 4096 is a good size for this kind of thing. For one, it matches the standard size ...