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Cranvac · 07-15-2007, 10:08 PM

being in the computer industry for over 25 years, I have gotten so tired of dealing with this issue with people. trying to describe the 1000 vs 1024 kilobyte rule. or base 10 (human numbering) vs base 2 (computer numbering).

some get all upset saying its a conspiracy or they are trying to hide something or rip everyone off. Or they compare with memory sizes which always use base 2 numbering. So they show more memory installed than is shown on the package. Nope.. you get every byte you are paying for... all you have to do is get a property screen of the drive to see it.

here is my 160 gig drive. Notice the bytes vs GB.. so in long form.. you see that you get all bytes.. short (GB) form... looks like you are not.

http://www.cranvac.net/160gig.gif

here is my 300 gig drive to show the same at a different size.

http://www.cranvac.net/300gig.gif

Hope I didnt sound to irritated. Pictures seem to work better with people than just typing out the information.

07-15-2007, 10:08 PM	#29
Cranvac Member (2 bit) Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 2	being in the computer industry for over 25 years, I have gotten so tired of dealing with this issue with people. trying to describe the 1000 vs 1024 kilobyte rule. or base 10 (human numbering) vs base 2 (computer numbering). some get all upset saying its a conspiracy or they are trying to hide something or rip everyone off. Or they compare with memory sizes which always use base 2 numbering. So they show more memory installed than is shown on the package. Nope.. you get every byte you are paying for... all you have to do is get a property screen of the drive to see it. here is my 160 gig drive. Notice the bytes vs GB.. so in long form.. you see that you get all bytes.. short (GB) form... looks like you are not. http://www.cranvac.net/160gig.gif here is my 300 gig drive to show the same at a different size. http://www.cranvac.net/300gig.gif Hope I didnt sound to irritated. Pictures seem to work better with people than just typing out the information. Last edited by freakitchen; 07-16-2007 at 06:32 AM.