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I just purchased a new Seagate external HD.
Well, it's an internal put into an enclosure.
It's 320 Gig. I bought it from a PC based shop. I was told even though it is rated as 320 Gig, it won't show the full 320 available. At the shop it showed up as 298 Gig free. Brought it home, plugged it into my G4 PB and it still shows 298 Gig free.
Is this normal? I can understand maybe losing 5 Gig, but 20???
Hard drive manufacturers rate their drive's capacities based on the assumption that 1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. In practice, 1 GB = 1,073,741,824 bytes.
It's just marketing. The actual capacity of your drive is actually about 298 GB.
"One ticket to Washington, please. I have a date with destiny."
Hard drive manufacturers and resellers (like Apple) use G as the standard SI prefix for 1 billion.
Most operating systems use G on screen, but really mean Gi, for 2^30.
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