Re: where is my remaining space ????

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On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 01:39 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 12:48 +0530, Jatin K wrote:
> > what about this missing space ... 
> > where is it ? )
> 
> The space you're looking for doesn't exist, for two reasons:
> 
> First, most (all?) hard drive manufacturers define 1gb as 1000mb.  In
> reality, 1gb is 1024mb.  Therefore, a hard drive that is sold as a 320gb
> hard drive has only 312.5gb of actual space.  Calling it a 320gb hard
> drive is a marketing ploy to make it sound larger.

Just wanted to clarify that most manufacturers define 1GB as
1,000,000,000 bytes, where it's actually 1,073,741,824 bytes
(1024*1024*1024).  That means that the actual space on a 320GB drive is
roughly 298GB.

> You also lose some of the hard drive capacity to what you might call
> overhead; tracking and format information that allows your computer to
> store and find stuff on the hard drive.

The other 10GB can probably be traced to this.

Jonathan

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