HD problem??

14 Mar 2005 12:27 AM

Olav Rekve

Bought Twin WD 250 GB hd but both only show 232 GB available slot total???
WTF???

14 Mar 2005 12:44 AM

Grinder

Olav Rekve wrote:

> Bought Twin WD 250 GB hd but both only show 232 GB available slot total???
> WTF???

You're seeing a differences in the definition of what a Gb is.

Drive Manufacturers Gb = 1,000,000,000 bytes
Windows Gb = 1024^3 = 1,073,741,824 bytes

250 Gb (Drive Manufacturers) = 232 Gb (Windows)

15 Mar 2005 4:41 AM

Raymond Sirois

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:27:47 GMT, "Olav Rekve"
<crownreg***@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Bought Twin WD 250 GB hd but both only show 232 GB available slot total???
>WTF???
>

WTF indeed.... how about calculating the difference between a decimal
gigabyte (which is what the dealer sold you), and a binary gigabyte
(which is what the computer sees)....

Raymond Sirois KU2S
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