Calculate Your Actual Storage Space

[Yellowhello]

Originally Posted by gamerfreak

No. Drive manufactures advertise 1gb at 1000mb, but the computer reads 1gb as 1024mb. Thus, you loose 24mb to the gig. Its actually a bit more when you get down to the nit of it.

Yeah, they were just talking about this on a Maximum PC Podcast. Apparently, someone sued Seagate because of the whole 1000MB=1GB or 1024MB=1GB thing...

Cho v. Seagate Technology (US) Holdings, Inc.

[Jokerswild]

This disparity has been talked about forever. I would have thought everyone knew by now.

[Death_blooms]

I did know but I forgot how it worked

[screwballl]

this is why we need a standard by which everything data related is measured. It would be easier to have a software patch to match the hardware reporting standard (use the hardware stated capacities).

[Lead Head]

Originally Posted by Death_blooms

Ahh now i getcha so 1gb is realy 1024 not 1000 which makes them all liars

If you want to get technical, Giga is a SI prefix meaning 1000, not 1024. So 1000MB in a Gigabyteis correct. Gibibyte is 1024 megabytes.

EDIT: On your calculator, if i put in 1.024 GB, i get .95 gigabytes. Shouldn't it be 1 ?

[gamerfreak]

Originally Posted by Lead Head

If you want to get technical, Giga is a SI prefix meaning 1000, not 1024. So 1000MB in a Gigabyteis correct. Gibibyte is 1024 megabytes.

Giga the SI prefix specifies a kilo, not 1000 necessarily (I think). A kilo in binary is 1024.

[screwballl]

now lets confuse things even more by tossing in a bit instead of byte

so my 8 Mbit connection only downloads at 1MByte...
ok nevermind I won't confuse people any more (other to say 8 bits = 1 byte)


This is why a 1GB file takes up 1024MB on a thumb drive and if the drive is limited to 1000MB the file will not fit.

[polobunny]

Originally Posted by Lead Head

If you want to get technical, Giga is a SI prefix meaning 1000, not 1024. So 1000MB in a Gigabyteis correct. Gibibyte is 1024 megabytes.

EDIT: On your calculator, if i put in 1.024 GB, i get .95 gigabytes. Shouldn't it be 1 ?

Nope. This is right.

1.024 gigabytes x 1000 x 1000 x 1000 = 1024000000 bytes
1024000000 bytes / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 = 0,95367431640625 gigabytes.

Edit: Oh and giga means 10^9.

[gamerfreak]

Originally Posted by polobunny

Nope. This is right.

1.024 gigabytes x 1000 x 1000 x 1000 = 1024000000 bytes
1024000000 bytes / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 = 0,95367431640625 gigabytes.

Edit: Oh and giga means 10^9.

Everything should be spot on. Please keep trying to break it though.