On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 14:56, Derrick Ryalls wrote: > When manufacturers talk about drive size, they use base 10. When computer > report drive size, they use base 2. So, if you divide 200,000,000 bytes by > ( 1024 * 1024 ), you get roughly 190gig in binary, so off the bat you lose > 10gigs of space due to marketspeak translation.
That's not always the case. I have seen disk manufacturers use something like base 20 :) In other words, they advertise a 160 GB drive which only holds 120 GB. I hope they get sued for this crap.... talk about deceptive marketing...geesh... Frank
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