# Data & Digital

Digital storage is counted in bytes of 8 bits, but prefixes mean two different things: a kilobyte is 1,000 bytes in the decimal SI system, while a kibibyte is 1,024 bytes in the binary IEC system. That gap is why a 1 TB drive can appear as about 931 GiB in an operating system.

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