On Saturday 14 January 2006 01:36, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > Hello. I want to burn to dvd some data which is just a tad over 4.4GB. I > have some Sony 4.7GB DVD+R blank media. However K3b insists that the media > is two small for the data. Anyone has an idea what is actually going on? > > Thank you. marketing at its finest... the 4.7GB are marketing Giga Bytes - with a base of 1000 rather than 1024. Some people us GiB to indicate that they really mean 1024 base. For GB to GiB you have roughly -7.5% difference. 4.7 GB / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 = 4.38 GiB You'll see the same with virtually all storage devices - including harddisks. Read the specs for your harddisk and then check with fdisk or something like that how big it really is :-) Peter.
