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

[Daniel Carter]

On 09/10/2007, Dean Harding <dean.harding at dload.com.au> wrote:
>
> It's kind of annoying that as drives get bigger and bigger, the size the
> manufacturer reports gets further and further from the size the
> operating system reports


Let see my operating system reports my SAMSUNG HD501LJ as

 sudo fdisk /dev/sda
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes

looks pretty close to me.
"*giga-* (symbol: *G*) is a prefix
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_prefix>in the
SI <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI> system of units denoting
109<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_%28numbers%29>,
or 1,000,000,000 (1 billion)"
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