250gb

[flsurf420]

If i buy a drive with 250gb how many real gb will it have and can you give me the formula to find out. please

[ghost2003]

I think they count it in 1000 instead of 1024. If im right it should really be ~227Gb

[RJ]

That is correct, they use 1000 instead of 1024.

So just add nine zeros to it to get Bytes (250.000.000.000 Bytes) and then divide that number 3 times by 1024.

Then you get the real capacity: 232,8 GB

RJ

[mikezel]

hmm i had always wondered about that. Thanks ghost2003 and RJ!
mike

[ghost2003]

oh, sorry about that, i calculated bytes as 1024 bits, thats why I was off 6Gb

[MrAustin]

Good info to know in the future, thanks guys!