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Thread ID: 91073	2008-06-25 05:24:00	Misleading in Marketing Drives	nzwaikato (10381)	Press F1

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682332	2008-06-26 04:46:00	Regardless of the number base being used, disk manufacturers are selling disk drives. They aren't responsible for the OSs. The way an OS file system is organised determines how much space you get to use. IBM (who made the first computer hard disk drives) had a nice compromise MB definition to keep all parties happy. 1 kB = 1024B. 1MB = 1000 kB. :D The 3.5" floppies which Microsoft now say contain 1.37 MB (MiB) have "always" been known as 1.44 MB (2880 512 byte sectors in MS standard format). And for the grouchies, IBM sold them marked as "2MB", which is the actual "raw" capacity, before formatting and initialising of the file system . (Floppies have a bit of wasted space in each track to allow for different spindle speeds on different drives. MS distribution floppies sometimes used some of that space in a special format, giving about 1.7MiB).	Graham L (2)
682333	2008-06-26 21:30:00	I agree fully. You should demand a refund of 2.4%(is my math correct??) Next thing potato chip makers will be put one less chip in the bag just to rip us off. I often weigh & count my potato chips as that extra missing chip is important to me. And when my change gets rounded down to the nearest 10c, who gets that 3c I just lost. It should go into a fund for an expedition to find the missing Mb's Just my 1.024c:2cents: :2cents:	sroby (11519)
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