[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Afternoon Ade,
> Except that a hard-drive "kilobyte" is 1000 bytes, and a "megabyte" is 1000 > "kilobytes"... > > So, in fact, it's 400 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 / (110 * 1024) = 3,551,136.3636 > recurring > > That's nearly 250,000 microdrive capacities "lost" :) Even worse, you divided by (110 * 1024) for kilobytes so theres an even bigger loss if you divided by (110 * 1000) ..... However, ignoring the use of 'M' or 'm' in megabytes, a *real* megabyte is as I have stated above, 1024 * 1024 bytes and a gigabyte is 1024 of those. The *but* is that a hard disc sales brochure says that the capacity is 400GB which we technically savvy chaps and chapesses assume to be 400 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 unfortunately, those savvy sales people know that we think this way - which is why they say it. They, on the other hand mean that 400 GB is 400 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 bytes - so we lose out by using the correct numbers. It is, basically, another sales con. Of course, the capacity decreases when you format the disc as well (how did they work out the unformatted capacity, because, if it is unformatted then you cannot store anything on it !) Cheers, Norman. _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
