[Northface25]

I put some songs on my nano. and later I took them off and it says I have 1.8 gigs on my nano even though I took all the songs off. Does anyone know why that is? Am I doing somehting wrong? Thank you, Jason

[Dark Helmet]

All storage media is like this. Even hard drives, CD's, Zips Etc.

The drive needs some space to store information on the files you will be copying to it.

[I was David B.]

Originally Posted by Northface25

I put some songs on my nano. and later I took them off and it says I have 1.8 gigs on my nano even though I took all the songs off. Does anyone know why that is? Am I doing somehting wrong? Thank you, Jason

This is the usual fake between 1000 and 1024.
A 2 GB drive is supposed to have 2*1000*1000*1000 Byte = 2*10exp9 Byte. This would be the mathematically correct interpretation of Giga.

In reality (since computers think binary) 2GB is displayed by your iPod (and any other computer) as 2*10exp9/(1024*1024*1024) = 1.86GB.
So nothing is wrong (exept marketing that doesn't understand whats going on - like always).

[ghporter]

David said it well. Your "two gig" drive actually has a capacity of two billion bytes, not 2gigabytes. David also shows the math, which is very helpful.

Drive makers like to say that their products are as impressive as possible-think of a guy sleazily trying to impress a girl with his "manliness..."

Also, as Dark Helmet says, there's some overhead needed by the iPod; it has an operating sytem and some drive-based storage for options and settings.