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What are the real sizes of H/D?

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What's the conversion between Advertising HD size and Actual HD size? My 130gb is seen in windows as a 121gb HD, and a PC I'm working on is listed as a 160gb but is being seen as a 149gb (is that right?).

Name: egkenny
Date: January 2, 2004 at 17:46:05 Pacific

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Hard drive manufactures define sizes this way: 1 KB = 1000 bytes 1 MB = 1KBx1KB = 1000x1000 = 1,000,000 bytes 1 GB = 1KB x 1MB = 1,000,000,000 bytes Windows defines sizes this Way: 1 KB = 1024 bytes 1 MB = 1KBx1KB = 1024x1024 = 1,048,576 bytes 1 GB = 1KB x 1MB = 1,073,741,824 bytes To convert from a 160GB hard drive to what Windows reports: 160 GB = 160,000,000,000 / 1,073,741,824 = 149.012 GB

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egkenny is sooo right on the money!! he is the man, all i can do is agree with him 110%

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