# The Hard Drive Size Conundrum

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 7, 2003, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hard-drive-size-conundrum/173635 "2003-05-07T11:41:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hard-drive-size-conundrum/173635/21 "2003-05-09T11:24:26Z")

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Right, which I did not go into because of the target audience, but I did reference the fact that _1024 is as close to 1000 as you can get using powers of 2_ and that hexadecimal was a convention that programmers utilized.

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