At 1:09 PM -0700 9/4/2008, insightinmind wrote:
>
>1GB = 1028MB, and not 1000 MB,

The factor is 1024, not 1028.

It's binary (base 2) math converted to decimal (base 10) for our eyes.

1 TB = 1,024 GB

1 GB = 1,024 MB

1 MB = 1,024 KB

1 KB = 1,024 Bytes.

>and that when a disk is formatted, you "lose" space due to maintenance
>/ indexing / allocation needs of the system ... maybe even bad sectors
>being mapped out.

Right.  The partition map and each individual file system on each 
volume (partition) require space.

- Dan.
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