I think that they do this so that you don't have companies running around claiming to have 201GB hard drives and thereby selling more for that reason alone. If the masses of computer ilitterate people saw this, then barely anyone would be getting ahead. If they round it off, then it's a standard and doesn't become a monopoly.

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I still consider it cheating despite on the optimistic comments they have been getting for giving extra 9 KB of Space. If the Hard Drive manufacturers want to sell their hard drive as 200 GB, they must do it in the computer calculation, not the metric calculation, which means, they must sell their 200 GB hard drives as 214748364800 bytes, NOT 200000000000 bytes which eventually turns into 189 GB. They could get into a lawsuit situation for and I wonder who came up with this cheat advertising. I mean I can understand if the Hard Drive manufacturers did this by mistake, but they are still doing it and really, advertising the wrong number. Just because the technical specifications are the same as the advertised amount, the obvious is not and thats considered cheating. How come Memory is sold as 1024 and 2048 and not 1000 and 2000 for 1 and 2 GB of Memory? The Memory Manufacturers sound more genuine than the Hard Drive manufacturers in my opinion. Hi I'm Maddie I'm a beautiful black flower, Hi I'm Maddie I'm a beautiful black flower, Hi I'm Maddie. Hi I'm Maddie. Hi I'm Maddie I'm a beautiful black flower,

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One thing I could comment on before this thread dies. There probably are 214GB of actual space on the drive. There are unused clusters that are in reserve so that if a cluster gets damaged it can be replaced with one of the spares. You are correct in the false advertising area. There are many more flagrant examples of false advertising on national TV. How about car leases. Do the math here. $199 a month for 24 months with $1999 down. The way I see that you are actually paying $282.29 a month, if you amortize the down payment. In my mind that is far worse than the drive manufacturers' claims.

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I used to agree on the false advertising thing but the bytes are there. If one method of counting those bytes leaves the impression of less capacity I don't see that it's the manufacturer's fault. They are selling a raw unpartitioned, unformatted drive with a certain number of available bytes. That's all. But given how often this comes up, it'd be a good idea if they would provide both figures to avoid confusion. For what it's worth, if you right click on the drive in 'my computer' and choose 'properties' you'll get both figures. You make a good point on how RAM is spec'd in more 'user friendly' figures.

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