[BNM] ipod question

[James Lawrie]

It's probably the marketing scam always used by hard drives of using 1000
instead of 1024.
If it's 80GB, using 1000 mb in a GB, 1000 kb in a mb, and 1000 bits in a
megabyte:
80/(1.024^3) = 74.5058 real GB.

I think it's appauling they manage to get away with this - especially
considering that these "terabyte hard drives" are worked out in the same
way, and so only around 931GB - nearly 100GB smaller than what they are
effectively advertising!


2008/5/1 Antony Jones <antonyj at gamesys.co.uk>:

> That space is used for formatting information, operating system
> (maybe?), backups of the MBR, inneficiencies in storage algorithms and
> other hard disk system stuff.
>
> You never get the full capacity of a hard disk on a hard disk - you
> generally lose about 10gig on a modern day hard disk.
>
> Ant
>
> On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 06:49 -0400, DaveStonier at aol.com wrote:
> > Bought my first ipod and noticed that whereas it says it holds 80BG that
> > only 74.3 GB were available before its first sync. Can I assume that the
> > pre-loaded stuff, games, graphics etc, is this storage or should I
> worry?
> >
> > d
> >
> >
> >
> >
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