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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