Want to purchase 360, need some advice!

[Munkeh111]

Squilliam said:

Munkeh111 said:
the OS takes up a lot of space, so you are not getting the 20GB, it is closer to 15GB

Wrong...

The OS is stored on a Flash rom, the reason for that discrepency is that Hard drives are rated for decimel bytes 1,000,000 bytes = megabyte whereas operating systems report them in Binary bytes - 1,024,000 bytes = 1 megabyte IIRC and the Xbox360 has a few gigs set aside for game caching as well.

And its about 13.9gb for the maximum available HDD space on the 20gb.

 

 

Ok, I just assumed that was what it was, but it is still quite annoying that you do not get anywhere near the advertised drive space