Re: It's marketing lies allowed to become reality.
"You buy a HDD advertised as 4Tb"
That would make it a 500 GB drive.
Creative Labs marketed the original SB AWE32 sound card as having "4 Mbit memory on board, upgradeable to 28Mbytes". Some end users were perplexed because they expected it to have 4 megabytes, not 512KB.
Marketing lies, I agree.