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Can I just say that I have had it up to here with this measurement "class" bullshit? Either the drive actually is 128 TB, or it isn't. Either the fridge actually is 31 cubic feet, or it isn't. Either the TV really is 60 inches, or it isn't.
Just state the actual number. Most manufacturers use the "class" designation to steadfastly refuse to be truthful, which just means we can never actually trust them.
Is a 960GB SSD in the 1TB class?
Isn't it because if they can't guarantee 100% of the advertised storage they'd have risk. And achieving 100% guaranteed functionality on microchips is damn near impossible cause silicon lottery
No, because that would be an easily overcome hurdle by just adding a little extra silicon in each unit to ensure that it meets or exceeds the advertised capacity if the manufacturer were not in fact actually interested in being deliberately misleading. This thing appears to kind of be an exception, but even then they're allergic to just outright stating the capacity.
If the manufacturers were interested in being honest with these types of things the "size class" would not so often invariably, unfailingly, result in a generous rounding up of the stated figure rather than rounding down.
TV's are always smaller than their advertised "size class." Appliances are always a lesser capacity than their advertised "size class." Cameras always have fewer pixels than their "megapixel class." Storage media is always smaller capacity than its advertised "size class."
(And this is before we even get into the whole megabyte-gigabyte-terabyte/mebibyte-gigibyte-tebibyte debate.)
They don't want to get sued, and don't want to state the actual number which probably is unpalatable...
They did state the actual number….in the article.