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Can anyone let me know whether the 10-terabyte number is 1024-base or 1000-base? Would it fit on the formatted capacity of a Western Digital WD101FZBX Black, for example...?

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The rule here is read these numbers in whatever way benefits the manufacturer; i.e read it as base-1024 if bigger numbers look better and 1000 if they don't.

I would assume that 10TB of hacked data will not fit a 10TB Western Digital hard drive.

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