How do i show precise data used on my 2TB hard drive instead of it using decimil points?

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On my hard drive it says 1.35TB available. I want to know the exact amount available. I know i can go into properties, but i want it to show on the "This PC" for easier visibility as it's something i'm routinely checking.

Even going into properties it says 1,492,875,7111,904 (1.35TB) available. So is that 1.492GB available, and if not, what is the exact amount of the 1.35TB available?, bit confusing.
 
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You're getting confused by the two different ways that people use the terms kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, and terabyte. With poor attenti0n to detail, different people use the same terms to mean different things.

The number of bytes you cite - 1,492,875,711,904 (and I removed one of the "1"'s I think does not belong) is the real number. Many people like you and me and hard drive makers then would say, "well, "tera-" means 10^12, so that number is 1.4929 TB. But Microsoft and many digital people have re-defined the term "kilobyte" to mean 1,024 bytes, and extended that so that "terabyte" to them means 1024 x 1024 x 1024 x 1024 bytes, or 1,099,511,627,776 bytes. (Some people try to keep this straight by defining that number as one "TiB"...
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You're getting confused by the two different ways that people use the terms kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, and terabyte. With poor attenti0n to detail, different people use the same terms to mean different things.

The number of bytes you cite - 1,492,875,711,904 (and I removed one of the "1"'s I think does not belong) is the real number. Many people like you and me and hard drive makers then would say, "well, "tera-" means 10^12, so that number is 1.4929 TB. But Microsoft and many digital people have re-defined the term "kilobyte" to mean 1,024 bytes, and extended that so that "terabyte" to them means 1024 x 1024 x 1024 x 1024 bytes, or 1,099,511,627,776 bytes. (Some people try to keep this straight by defining that number as one "TiB", not one "TB".) If you take that original number of bytes you had and divide by this new definition of a TiB, the available space is 1.3577 TiB. But more commonly, Windows will tell you that is 1.3577 "TB". That's why the numbers don't match properly.

Unfortunately this has confused many people into suspecting that their HDD has "lost" some space. But in fact the space involved is exactly the same even though the numbers appear different, because the size is being quantified using different definitions of the measurement units even though the same words are being used. No wonder it causes confusion!
 
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