[mythtv-users] OT: Size (MB) of Samsung HD501LJ drive?

[Josh White]

Teh maths make it no less disappointing.

On 10/9/07, Taco Mel <taco_mel at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > cfdisk reports both of my HD501LJ Size:
> >
> > 500105.25 (MB)
>
> Keep in mind that 500 GB as specified by the
> manufacturer is based on 1000 rather than 1024.  This
> makes their storage capacity seem larger than it
> really is.  The disk manufacturers say that 500 GB =
> 500*1000*1000*1000 bytes.
>
> To convert your capacity into what the computer sees
> we divide 500,105,250,000 bytes by 1024^3 and this
> comes out to: 465.7593 GiB.
>
> Your "missing" 35 gigabytes is explained by this calculation.
>
>
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