| Smidlee said: The GB thing is a little tricky to me. This is how i understand it. A computer 1GB seems to be larger than a "actual" 1GB. (Like 2GB of ram in my PC is actually 2.095 GB of ram.) I think the 120 GB HDD is referring to "actual" GB while 113 GB is in reference to the computer oversize GB. P.S I see someone else above explain it better than I have. |
So are you saying this size listed on an HDD doesn't actually use an even 2^n file size?
EDIT: Nevermind, I just went through this crap on Wikipedia. So why would we change the naming nomiclature to GiB to compensate for an incorrect usage of units in hard drives. So this means your actual data size is -48576B/GB or -24kB/GB. This would automatically lose 2.88 real GB on a 120 fake GB HDD. Well with the increase in HDD storage space, there may be some complaints as the listed size is missng 24GB/TB.
EDIT2: oops, bad math, on a 120GB HDD you lose 2.8125GB or 2880kB.
