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1000 MB != 1 GB...
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09-19-2003, 08:33 PM
Looks like people have decided to sue hard drive manufacturers for continuing to pull off the old "1000 MB = 1 GB" game, that they've been pulling for years.

Actually, it's more like 1000 bytes = 1 KB, 1000 of those KB = 1 MB, and then 1000 of those MB = 1 GB.

Do the math sometime. I've got a 20 GB drive here. Windows reports 18.6 GB.

20,000,000,000 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 = 18.6 (and change).

On bigger hard drives, as they say in the article, this can amount to 10 GB of missing space!

So I'm actually glad that this suit finally happened.
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1000 MB != 1 GB... - by FollowThisLogic - 09-19-2003, 08:33 PM
1000 MB != 1 GB... - by QuickStop - 10-10-2003, 07:43 PM
1000 MB != 1 GB... - by The Brain - 10-11-2003, 08:04 PM
1000 MB != 1 GB... - by QuickStop - 10-11-2003, 10:00 PM
1000 MB != 1 GB... - by The Brain - 10-11-2003, 11:39 PM
1000 MB != 1 GB... - by Hasegawa - 09-19-2003, 08:53 PM
1000 MB != 1 GB... - by The Brain - 09-19-2003, 08:54 PM
1000 MB != 1 GB... - by Flock of Moosen - 09-20-2003, 05:14 AM
1000 MB != 1 GB... - by Death_Metal Moe - 09-20-2003, 05:37 AM
1000 MB != 1 GB... - by Flock of Moosen - 09-20-2003, 05:40 AM
1000 MB != 1 GB... - by FollowThisLogic - 09-20-2003, 06:18 AM
1000 MB != 1 GB... - by Kid Afrika - 09-20-2003, 10:55 PM
1000 MB != 1 GB... - by FollowThisLogic - 09-21-2003, 06:10 AM
1000 MB != 1 GB... - by Kid Afrika - 09-22-2003, 06:40 AM
1000 MB != 1 GB... - by Flock of Moosen - 09-22-2003, 08:02 AM
1000 MB != 1 GB... - by Rooner - 09-22-2003, 12:26 PM
1000 MB != 1 GB... - by Sloats - 09-22-2003, 01:20 PM
1000 MB != 1 GB... - by The Brain - 09-22-2003, 11:19 PM
1000 MB != 1 GB... - by Keyser Soze - 09-22-2003, 11:23 PM
1000 MB != 1 GB... - by reefdwella - 09-26-2003, 11:16 PM
1000 MB != 1 GB... - by FollowThisLogic - 09-27-2003, 06:10 AM

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