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imbest123 · 12-22-2003, 03:06 PM

33.1 Gb is what the drive should be reporting at. Like Bailey said its a math thing. My 40Gb hd reports as 33.1 Gb. When the company makes the drive they mean that 1 gb equals 1 billion bytes instead of whatever it really is.

12-22-2003, 03:06 PM	#4
imbest123 iTroll Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: 818 Posts: 2,252	33.1 Gb is what the drive should be reporting at. Like Bailey said its a math thing. My 40Gb hd reports as 33.1 Gb. When the company makes the drive they mean that 1 gb equals 1 billion bytes instead of whatever it really is.