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re: hard drive space
Friday, July 4, 2008 at 9:03 am
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Posted by mick fraser (2 messages posted)


thanks spexx happy now i know


On Friday, July 4, 2008 at 4:59 am, Spexx wrote:
>Yeah it's a regular question. Disk drive manufacturers define Gigabytes as 1,000,000,000
>bytes, while computer people working with true binary etc will tell you that a Gigabyte
>is 1,073,741,824 bytes. With your disk being 120 Gigabytes as defined by the manufacturer
>i.e. 120,000,000,000 bytes the computer will define this as 120 x (1000000000/1073741824)
>= 111.76 Gigabytes. Hope this clears it up for you. Cheers. Spexx.


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re: hard drive space (Spexx: Friday, July 4, 2008 at 4:59 am)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-hard drive space (mick fraser: Fri, Jul 4, 2008, 4:42 am)
-re: hard drive space (Spexx: Fri, Jul 4, 2008, 4:59 am)
*re: hard drive space (mick fraser: Fri, Jul 4, 2008, 9:03 am)
*re: hard drive space (MartinM: Fri, Jul 4, 2008, 9:29 am)
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