roosevelt
Joined: 25 Jul 2004
Posts: 198
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 Posted: 04/20/07 - 08:36 Post subject: |
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| Hi! I bought a used HDD from e-bay. It’s Maxtor 80Gb, at least the seller said so. When I added it to my previous, and after booting up, it recognized it ok, but: in Windows, in Control Panel, I get Disk1 size: 76,33Gb. Now… This is 4Gb less than it was supposed to be? Well, I won’t commit suicide because of this 4Gb, but I’d like to know if I’ve been fooled or this is some product-error. |
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jessa
Joined: 12 Feb 2005
Posts: 53
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| Posted: 05/09/07 - 03:48 Post subject: |
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| Hmm… I’d say it’s pretty strange that you haven’t noticed that your previous hdd is also smaller size than it says on its sticker. So, why is this? In IT, a kilobyte is defined as 1024 bytes, megabyte as 1024 kB and so on…. Thus you get that 1Gb=1.073 billion bytes. However, HDD manufacturers define 1 Gb as 1 billion bytes. That’s why they market smaller disks as larger ones. |
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