I have a friend who’s a singer. He showed me how much storage 1 4 min music video took. 40 min per camera, 3 cameras, 4K. Unedited raw footage came out at ~2.5TB. It’s just insane to me. My PC has 1TB of storage.

  • carl_dungeon@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    You’re not wrong- but when the change happened, it seemed to be around the time HDD manufacturers started taking flak for selling high capacity drives that didn’t match formatted capacity by larger and larger margins. OS level files sizes were always 2^n - it was a real PitA when Apple switched to base 10 for gui size reporting. I believe terminal utilities still measure file size in 1024 bytes.

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      Formatted size will always be smaller than raw size as you are storing a file system and there are lots of different ones with different space requirements.