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JOhnyBravoos on 19 August 2009
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gergroy said:
JOhnyBravoos said:

Well it doesn't "reserve", well maybe it does but what I'm trying to explain is the 1000 vs 1024 bits battle.

So your 120GB HDD is more like 112GiB(This is before inserting it to your Xbox where it does(n't) reserve some of the HDD)


lol, they wouldn't use the term 120 GiB if it didn't have that much space.  The 360 reserves about 7 gigs like Twestern said for the os and other system functions.  However, if you clear all the information off the drive, even the os, it would be a full 120 gigs.

Haha but they do! I'm not being biest at all but what HDD companies displays as the HDD capacity is not what you think your getting, for example 120GB=/=120GiB. Storage manufactures trick you into thinking that your getting more bang for your bucks, 111.75GiB vs 120GB... What are they going to showcase? Of course it's the 120GB as it's larger and it's a nicer and rounder number to use. Your device will read in 1024 (Because it uses binary, - 1,2,4,8,16...1024) but the storage companies use 1000, so on your screen it will view 111.75 and not 120.

But it's actually reasonable aswell as confusing to some as they are used with the data displayed by their operating system to display in GB while it's actually GiB! I've probably worded this like hell but if you don't believe me just do some research so you can see for yourself.

 

With your Internet Service Provider, do they display your up/download speed in Mbps or MBps? It's Mbps! It's the larger number, 8 times larger in fact, so when you download and only see say 1MB/s on your download bar where some customers think that they're actually getting 8MB/s and not 8Mb/s as they don't know the difference between bits and bytes without thinking that the capital B would make such a difference.