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doesnt that seem a little poor? no way will you loose 22gb due to the unit allocation size.
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windows uses a different value for 1gb over HD suppliers though
No, you lose the other half because windows and HDD manufacturers have a different understanding of numbers.
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that makes sence. Cheers,
yeh it's to do with the number of bytes in a kilobyte, and kilobytes in a megabyte etc etc
the actual figure is 1024 but HDD manufacturers use 1000, sounds like a small error but it all builds up, and the bigger the drive the more you loose.
the actual figure is 1024 but HDD manufacturers use 1000, sounds like a small error but it all builds up, and the bigger the drive the more you loose.
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yeah i figured thats what was done, in which case its actually the manufaturer using the wrong units
It's not as simple as that, GB in the terms that the HDD industry uses is SI, MS, giga meaning 10^9 bytes. 2^30 is fairly arbitrary and just close to an actual gigabyte.
A good page on it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte
A good page on it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte
