Comments on: Apple Canada’s $3.6M dud batteries http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15888 p2pnet.net offers not-your-lamescream news on movies music digital media P2P peer-to-peer TV television file sharing freedom of speech open source product news Wifi mobiles company Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:51:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Glad George http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15888#comment-459002 Glad George Sat, 10 May 2008 07:37:06 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15888#comment-459002 The case about the 'missing giga/megabytes' applies to every hard drive in existence. They are all marketed as X gigabytes, but the real size is less. The excuse of 1,000,000 being a number the layman understands better than 1,048,576 is about as dumb as it gets because computers have always been binary based. Of course, when you combine this rounding down with loss of free space once formatted, modern drives will 'lose' tens of gigabytes of advertised capacity. Just a quick look at my own system reveals a claimed 320GB drive having a 298.09GB formatted capacity and an 80GB one as 74GB. RAM is not marketed with this BS attached... The case about the ‘missing giga/megabytes’ applies to every hard drive in existence.
They are all marketed as X gigabytes, but the real size is less.

The excuse of 1,000,000 being a number the layman understands better than 1,048,576 is about as dumb as it gets because computers have always been binary based.

Of course, when you combine this rounding down with loss of free space once formatted, modern drives will ‘lose’ tens of gigabytes of advertised capacity. Just a quick look at my own system reveals a claimed 320GB drive having a 298.09GB formatted capacity and an 80GB one as 74GB.

RAM is not marketed with this BS attached…

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