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@gmail.com> 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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