a12331 on 17 September 2009
| scottie said: When MS advertise 120 GB, they actually mean 120 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 bytes However, the 360 reports in terms of x * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 Where x is the actual number of gigabytes x turns out to be 111.76 GB. Thus there is 8.24 GB of 'lost space' With a 20 gb harddrive, the 'lost space' will be 1/6th as much, because the harddrive is 1/6th as much. Therefore, when you change over, it is expected that you will 'lose' 6.87 GB. This works out that you should have 93.13 GB of space left on your harddrive, not 90.7 But of course, there was already stuff pre-installed on your 120 gb harddrive. Is the system software the same in both cases? |
this is the real reason why you lose the space, the 1000 mb = 1 gb is a way to rip consumers off, sad part is that operating systems are now reading a gb as 1000 mb, snow leopard.
