where is my remaining space ????

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Tuesday 23 February 2010 10:38:42 Alan Cox wrote:
> > 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
> 
> > hard drive has only 312.5gb of actual space.  Calling it a 320gb hard
> > drive is a marketing ploy to make it sound larger.
> 
> Its correct (slightly over) but it does confuse because computing people
> used the wrong units for so long and often still do.

There's even a (rather old) joke about this:

Q: How many meters are there in a kilometer?
A: 1024, of course.

Best, :-)
Marko