Arthur Pemberton wrote:
Thanks guys. I did the maths myself. This sucks. Dam marketing, and
from Sony no less.
On 1/14/06, *Peter Arremann* < loony@xxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:loony@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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 :-)
I don't know whether it applies to DVDs or K3b, but when using cdrecord
to make CDs, you can use the '-overburn' option to squeeze a bit more on
the disk, more than your actual 4.38GB perhaps.
Greg
