"Mmm . . . Pi!"
(drooling)
--Homer Simpson
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Robert Lawson <avidrhl@...> wrote:
>
> If memory serves, there was a class action judgement against Hard
> Drive manufacturers so now there's a little sticker on the drive that
> tells you that a Gigabyte is 1,000 Megabytes.
>
> Like rounding pi down to 3 because the math is easier that way...
>
>
>
> On 1/3/11, nat jencks <natjencks.lists@...> wrote:
> > This has to do with the fact that 1K is actually 1024 bytes, 1MB is actually
> > 1024KB, etc. etc. etc.
> > so the 1024's multiple to create a substantial difference.
> >
> > The REALLY annoying thing is that it's not consistently counted that way.
> > Manufacturers like to list drive sizes counting in a manner that makes the
> > drive seem bigger, so they would list your drive as 1.6TB.
> > The counting method varies across different software and platforms, which
> > ultimately makes the whole matter extremely annoying :) If you want to be
> > absolutely certain that you are being precise about the amount of space
> > used, its best to use bytes.
> >
> > Happy new year
> > -N
> >
> >
> > On Jan 3, 2011, at 7:37 PM, Tom McDonnell wrote:
> >
> >> I need to rebuild a raid and am getting a discrepancy in used space.
> >>
> >> On Windows 7 a drive partition reads used space as:
> >> 1,193,780,006,912 bytes
> >> Versus
> >> 1.08 TB.
> >>
> >> Total disc capacity is:
> >> 1,601,885,433,856 Bytes
> >> Versus
> >> 1.45 TB
> >>
> >> Which one is the accurate one and why is the TB reading less?
> >>
> >> Happy New Year everybody,
> >> Tom McDonnell
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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> ---
> Rob Lawson
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