I think one gigabyte (i.e. 2 raised to the 30th power) would be 1.074
billion bytes. So if an HD manufacturer did a dishonest thing and reported
his disk's capacity as billions of bytes rather than gigabytes base 2, he
would be over by about 7%, which is pretty close to what you're seeing (7%
of 9 billion is 630 million).
At 04:21 PM 8/26/99 -0400, you wrote:
>On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, you wrote:
>>
>> Your accounting for HD manufactures, all failing math right, as in they
>> don't count a megabyte as 1,024,000 but as 1,000,000?
>>
>Hmm...nope. :-) Good point. But would that be enough to
>bring me down 600 megs? Just wondering... :-)
> John
>
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