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RE: [ukha_d] (OT) Help!! – Lost Gb’s during Hard Drive format!!


  • Subject: RE: [ukha_d] (OT) Help!! – Lost Gb’s during Hard Drive format!!
  • From: "Bricknell, Tony" <tony.bricknell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:04:38 +0200

Ah... that explains it ... ! :o)

-----Original Message-----
From: Mal Lansell [mailto:mlansell@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 12 July, 2004 17:03
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] (OT) Help!! =96 Lost Gb=92s during Hard Drive
format!=
!


It is if you're a lying HD manufacturer trying to make your disks sound=20
as big as possible.  To them 137Gb means 137,000,000,000 bytes.  This is=20
roughly 127Gb when calculated properly (ie when powers of 2 reign supreme)

Mal


Bricknell, Tony wrote:

>I thought the limit was 137GB...?



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