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> Mb, Gb, Tb Conversions, who and why?
vestri_matris
post Jul 27 2006, 07:02 PM
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Who decided that there was gunna be 1024 MB in a GB??? Is there some specific reason that its 1024 and not just a 1000?


edit: I was looking at a conversion calc. and theres 1099511627776 GB in a zettabyte, just a bit of random info

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post Jul 27 2006, 07:15 PM
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becase 1000 isnt a base of 2...
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post Jul 27 2006, 07:30 PM
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QUOTE(gcskate27 @ Jul 27 2006, 02:22 PM) *

becase 1000 isnt a base of 2...

ding ding ding ding ding ding ding laugh.gif

Someone's just pissed that he can only copy 460GB of porn to his 500GB HDD jester.gif
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post Jul 27 2006, 07:59 PM
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2^10=1024
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post Jul 27 2006, 08:34 PM
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mmmkay that makes sense, and i only wish i had a 500 GB HDD sad.gif
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post Jul 28 2006, 03:13 AM
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QUOTE(Perplexer @ Jul 27 2006, 02:37 PM) *

ding ding ding ding ding ding ding laugh.gif

Someone's just pissed that he can only copy 460GB of porn to his 500GB HDD jester.gif



0_0 wow
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post Jul 28 2006, 03:50 AM
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Yeah unfortunately most HDD manufacturers consider 1GB as 1,000,000,000 bytes and not 1073741824 bytes like it really is, so it makes the drive's capacity seem bigger (just a marketing scheme).

For example, my Seagate "300GB" HDD in my computer is reported my Windows as 300,058,181,632 bytes in size, which in actuality is only 279.45GB. WTF?
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post Jul 28 2006, 03:52 AM
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QUOTE(G0t M4xx 21 @ Jul 27 2006, 09:57 PM) *

Yeah unfortunately most HDD manufacturers consider 1GB as 1,000,000,000 bytes and not 1073741824 bytes like it really is, so it makes the drive's capacity seem bigger (just a marketing scheme).

For example, my Seagate "300GB" HDD in my computer is reported my Windows as 300,058,181,632 bytes in size, which in actuality is only 279.45GB. WTF?


wouldn't that be false advertising? blink.gif
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post Jul 28 2006, 03:55 AM
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QUOTE(vestri_matris @ Jul 27 2006, 10:59 PM) *

wouldn't that be false advertising? blink.gif

No, because somewhere on the box it usually says its acctual size I think.
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post Jul 28 2006, 04:36 AM
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No they just say 1 KB = 1000 bytes
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post Jul 28 2006, 09:21 AM
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But 1 Kilobyte is 1024 bytes....

They do say actual size on the boxes, well all I have seen anyway.

I don't think my prostate could handle 460 GB or porn....wow.
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