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05-07-2004, 04:04 PM
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250gb
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
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05-07-2004, 04:19 PM
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I think they count it in 1000 instead of 1024. If im right it should really be ~227Gb
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05-07-2004, 04:30 PM
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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
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05-07-2004, 05:53 PM
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hmm i had always wondered about that. Thanks ghost2003 and RJ!
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05-07-2004, 06:00 PM
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Lest we forget
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oh, sorry about that, i calculated bytes as 1024 bits, thats why I was off 6Gb
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05-07-2004, 11:55 PM
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Good info to know in the future, thanks guys!
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