A technician installed a new 2GB hard drive on a server, but it only shows 1.86GB of unformatted space. Which of the following is a reason for the difference?
A) Manufacturers use base 10 instead of base 2 in advertising disk space.
B) A swap file is added to the drive automatically, reducing available disk space.
C) The disk controller maps out a section of hard drive space for diagnostics.
D) Disk drivers consume space of the hard drive.

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Manufacturers often use base 10 (decimal) to advertise disk space, where 1GB is 1,000,000,000 bytes. However, computers use base 2 (binary), where 1GB is 1,073,741,824 bytes. This discrepancy results in the reported capacity being less than advertised.

A Technician Installed a New 2GB Hard Drive on a Server