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Peter M · August 12th, 2006, 07:16 AM

Once again:

DRIVES DO NOT HAVE LESS CAPACITY THAN ADVERTIZED.

Drive advertizing uses the abbreviation "GB", which denotes THE DECIMAL UNIT. So you can expect your "200GB" drive to have 200,000,000,000 bytes, no more.

As pointed out above already, the wrongness is in fact on the other end - 200 GB are about 186 GiB. If your software shows that as "186GB", then the software is bull not the drive advertizing.

August 12th, 2006, 07:16 AM	#11 (permalink)
Peter M Ultimate Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Augsburg, Germany Posts: 5,586	Once again: DRIVES DO NOT HAVE LESS CAPACITY THAN ADVERTIZED. Drive advertizing uses the abbreviation "GB", which denotes THE DECIMAL UNIT. So you can expect your "200GB" drive to have 200,000,000,000 bytes, no more. As pointed out above already, the wrongness is in fact on the other end - 200 GB are about 186 GiB. If your software shows that as "186GB", then the software is bull not the drive advertizing. Last edited by Peter M : August 12th, 2006 at 07:20 AM.