hard disk size

  • Thread starter Thread starter VW
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After digging around, I've discovered the following:

My hard drive is advertised as 200GB which is actually
200,000,000,000 bytes (there's the catch!). If we do the
math, there are 1024 bytes in a Kb, so to convert
200,000,000,000 into the real Gb value, we divide by 1024
3 times (200,000,000,000 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024) to get
186.26Gb. Which is what I am seeing in Windows. So the
advertising of 200Gb when it is actually 186.26Gb seems
to have thrown me off!

I hope this helps in the future!

VW
 
VW said:
After digging around, I've discovered the following:

My hard drive is advertised as 200GB which is actually
200,000,000,000 bytes (there's the catch!). If we do the
math, there are 1024 bytes in a Kb, so to convert
200,000,000,000 into the real Gb value, we divide by 1024
3 times (200,000,000,000 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024) to get
186.26Gb. Which is what I am seeing in Windows. So the
advertising of 200Gb when it is actually 186.26Gb seems
to have thrown me off!

I hope this helps in the future!

VW
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This is common practice and IMO is false advertising, but who am I to
question the industry :)

If RAM was sold this way, people would notice. If milk or gasoline were
sold this way, the masses would revolt.

--

Mike Brown
Asset Forwarding Corp.
EPA-compliant Electronics Recycling
DoD 5220.22-M Data Elimination
http://www.assetforwarding.com
 
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