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how many MB's = 4.7 GB??

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Name: nebjamin
Date: February 11, 2005 at 14:23:21 Pacific
Subject: how many MB's = 4.7 GB??
OS: XP
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Comment:
Is it 4,700?? Thanks for the help.


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Response Number 1
Name: OtheHill
Date: February 11, 2005 at 14:33:19 Pacific
Subject: how many MB's = 4.7 GB??
Reply: (edit)
There are 1024MBs in 1GB. DVDs are measured like harddisks. Basically the wrong way, that makes the product look bigger than it is. A DVD disk actually holds 4700MBs, which equals about 4.59GBs of unformatted space. After disk overhead I believe the number falls to about 4.4GB.

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Response Number 2
Name: Jake2
Date: February 11, 2005 at 15:07:30 Pacific
Subject: how many MB's = 4.7 GB??
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My Ritek G04 DVD-Rs hold 4489.25Mb if that helps.

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Response Number 3
Name: Rimfire
Date: February 11, 2005 at 16:07:24 Pacific
Subject: how many MB's = 4.7 GB??
Reply: (edit)
A common enough question and the cause of a lot of confusion.

A true Gigabyte contains 1,073,741,824 bytes.
A GB can also be 1000 MB 1,048,576,000 bytes.
It can also be 1,000,000,000 bytes.

Obviously, from a marketing point of view, true Gigabytes aren't as attractive as the other variants.


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Response Number 4
Name: XpUser
Date: February 12, 2005 at 04:35:04 Pacific
Subject: how many MB's = 4.7 GB??
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Question: My blank DVD-R/RW/+R/RW says I can burn 4.7 GB's of data. But I have heard that you can only burn up to 4.38 GB's of data. Which one of these facts is true?

Answer: Actually, both of the facts are true. The confusion comes because the "real" world and the "computer" world have different mathematical computations for what comprises a byte. The real world says that a byte is 1000 kb's, while the computer world says a byte is 1024 kb's. When you see the 4.7 on DVD MEDIA it is referring to 4.7 billion bytes, which equates to approximately 4.37 GB's. To simplify, you will need to keep your project to 4.37 GB's or less.


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