Government Auditing Standards (The Yellow Book) Add to favorites. Government Auditing Standards (the âYellow Bookâ) contains standards for audits of government organizations, programs, activities, and functions, and of government assistance received by contractors, nonprofit organizations, and other nongovernment organizations.
However, to make the numbers look bigger, a 1 TB HDD is displayed on the case in decimal numbers, meaning that 1 TB = 1000 GB. That is why the discrepancy between the numbers on the drive and the numbers that the OS reports from in the drive keeps increasing exponentially.
In computer terms, 1TB is 2 raised to the 40th power. 2^40 = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes. In Drive manufacturer terms, 1TB = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes (because it makes their drives look bigger) A 1 TB hard drive will format to about 931 GB because of this number game being played.