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Thread ID: 77260	2007-03-04 03:48:00	External Hard Drive Capacity	Pato (2463)	Press F1

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529828	2007-03-04 03:48:00	My external 320Gb drive shows free space as 298Gb. I know there is a reason for this but my old brain can't recall what it is. Can someone enlighten me please?.	Pato (2463)
529829	2007-03-04 04:15:00	My external 320Gb drive shows free space as 298Gb. I know there is a reason for this but my old brain can't recall what it is. Can someone enlighten me please?.A few years ago you used to buy drives that were one size, but you actually got a bit less than that due to the space used up when formatting the drive. These days it's a little different as you're actually getting a formatted capacity of 320GB. However, it's not actually 320GB - it's 320,000,000,000 bytes, which is about 298GB... so now really they're just lying about it :) I think it probably comes down to whether one kilobyte =1000 bytes or 1024 bytes. Mike.	Mike (15)
529830	2007-03-04 04:42:00	Thanks for that Mike. I knew there was a logical reason but I just could not remember what it was. Cheers. Pat.	Pato (2463)
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