Re: 180gb Drive Format ?

["Sean" <groups@xxxxxxx>]

They have been doing it for the about the last 5 or so years.

It used to be 2^10 but then it made more economic "sense" to make
it 1000

And gave them a quick boost it the storage wars

Sean
----- Original Message -----
From: "aashram" <groups@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 11:34 AM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] 180gb Drive Format ?


> so 180gb is not 180gb it is 171'ish gb
>
> surely this cannot be right ?
> how are the hard drive manufacturers getting
> away with this
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Lucas [mailto:tony@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tue 17/06/2003 11:21
> To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
> Cc:
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] 180gb Drive Format ?
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matt Walker [mailto:matthew.walker@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 17 June 2003 11:09
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: RE: [ukha_d] 180gb Drive Format ?
> >
> <snip Calculations>
> >
> > = 193273528320 bytes on a 180gig disk
> >
> > / 1024 = 188743680 MB on a 180gig disk
> >
> >
>
> Hard Drive Manufacturers work on MB and GB's being based on base 10
(eg
> 1000MB's in a GB), rather than base 8 (1024MB in a GB), so you always
> end up with less than the indicated amount, as shown with David's
> calculations.
>
> Please feel free to correct me if Im wrong but this is certainly how
it
> used to be.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tony.
>
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