where is my remaining space ????

Rich Mahn rich at lat.com
Tue Feb 23 14:22:20 UTC 2010


>> First, most (all?) hard drive manufacturers define 1gb as 1000mb.
>> In reality, 1gb is 1024mb.  Therefore, a hard drive that is sold as
>> a 320gb

> In fact they are giving you more than you asked for. Giga is a prefix
> for 10^x series. So really they should be giving you 1000000000 bytes

This is absolutely correct.  A Gigabyte (GB) is 1,000,000,000 (10^9)
bytes.  A Gibibyte (GiB) is 1,073,741,824 (2^30) bytes.  This has been
the official definition (according to NIST, BIPM, IEEE and others) for
several years.

OT:  I always found it interesting that the 1.44 Mbyte disk is actually
1.44 x 1024 x 1000, so it's neither 1.44 MB nor 1.44 MiB.
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