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Quote from: CypherIts the manufacturers rounding off the numbers.

No its not, its the difference in binary and decimal, as stated by M3ta7h3ad, Eggtastico and myself.

Youve just agreed with me.

Erm, no, i didnt. If you cant see how wrong you are then Ill just leave you to it.

Effectively the manufacturers are rounding off to the nearest thousand/million/billion so you are agreeing with him by default. OK they are using decimal rather than binary, but the effect is the same. The aim is to make the drive capacity look bigger.

theyre not rounding it off....

as already stated... to a computer its 1024MB to a GB

when they sell you hard drives, they count 1000MB to a GB




(I also asume theres some manufactuing/designe related reason to do this )

Quote from: knightywhen they sell you hard drives, they count 1000MB to a GB

No, they count 1,000,000,000 bytes as a GB or 1GB rounded off to the nearest Yankee billion.

Quote(I also asume theres some manufactuing/designe related reason to do this )

More profit. Really there is no reason except for the fact it looks good on advertising and the boxes.

yes, they do.... I was just explaining quick, the long version is... they count 10 bits to a byte, 1000 bytes to a kilobyte, 1000 kilobytes to a megabyte and 1000 megabytes to a gigabyte...   (instead of 8, 1024, 1024 and 1024)


but i think the more profit thing is balls, there has to be more reason to it than that.... because if it was just to make the drives look bigger for profit, one or more manufactrers would have already exploited it, changed the way they do it and have big adverts about the evil compertition ripping you off

(also, you have to think about the false advertising rules etc...)

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Quote from: CypherIts the manufacturers rounding off the numbers.

No its not, its the difference in binary and decimal, as stated by M3ta7h3ad, Eggtastico and myself.

Youve just agreed with me.

Erm, no, i didnt. If you cant see how wrong you are then Ill just leave you to it.

Effectively the manufacturers are rounding off to the nearest thousand/million/billion so you are agreeing with him by default. OK they are using decimal rather than binary, but the effect is the same. The aim is to make the drive capacity look bigger.

Indeedy.  Yes I know they giving the decimal conversion of the data avaialbe but it also happens to be just rouding it off to a nice round number.