[Nachohat]

I though I bough this thing with a 10 Gb hard-drive not 9.36! Is Apple still saying that 1Gb is 1000mb's instead of 1024mb's? In that case I would only be loosing 240 mb so the capacity would be 9.64Gb. But here I'm loosing almost 655mb's!!

Will the capacity change if I format the drive? (I will do this before I install OsX this summer) Has this happened to anyone else?

[Avenir]

Mine does the same thing, and I formatted it into two halves (5 gigs a piece) and they both read at a capacity of 4.68 gigs each, making a total of, yup, 9.36. I think this might be normal. Hey, if it really bothers ya, just go pick up that IBM 48 TravelStar when it comes out and forget about losing any space at all I'd sure like to do that, but then I just shelled out on 512 MB of RAM for my TI... woohoo 600+ megs!

[InterfaceGuy]

I purchased a new iBook today. My 10GB hard drive says 9.36 GB capacity.

[Gaijin]

The 10 GB's would be unformatted, with nothing on it. Not even the operating system. Since they came installed with software and formatted, you don't get a full 10 GB's to work with. This is true of everything...Zip Disks, HD's, etc.

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[chemical x]

Obviously the OS and all the apple extras/browsers/utilities etc. etc will take up space on your primary hard drive.

but out of curiousity....what kind of software resides on a Zip disk and/or external hard disk.

[Mike656]

No software resides on a new zip disk or a external hard disk, but they much be formatted in order to be usable, which takes up disk space.

[Raman]

What everyone here has failed to mention is that hard drive manufacturers consider 1 million bytes to = 1 megabyte. If 1024 bytes is 1 kilobyte and 1024 kilobytes = 1 megabyte we have a problem.


1024x1024x1024 != 1,000,000

your megabytes != hard drive manufacturers' megabytes

[Nachohat]

I don't want to flame you but I will make a kind remark Did you read the first post?

[Nachohat]

So one Gb is one billion bits. That's a rip off, I'm a computer engineer and when we use these, we always use powers of 2, 1024mb in a Gb. Why do the manufacturers, engineer themselves have to lie! It says exactly what you said (and I said in my first post) on the side of the box the computer shiped in.

[MadMacs]

I believe that the formatting creates a directory that takes up all that space.

[freakishhair]

your only 600megs short? geez... quit whining... you should have just got a 30gig

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[Fyre4ce]

We can figure out how much capacity you should have:

x(2^30) = 10 * 10^9

x = (10^10) / (2^30)

x = 9.31323

Hmmm... Your capacity should be 9.31 GB. I'm not sure why your Mac is reporting it as 9.36 GB.

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[Raman]

Originally posted by Nachohat:
I don't want to flame you but I will make a kind remark Did you read the first post?

Flame me if you'd like but the original poster said that Apple says 1 million bytes = 1 gigabyte when in reality is the hard drive manufacturer which is not Apple. Apple just passes along the info to the consumer.

Of course, Apple could say "It comes with a 9.36 GB hard drive." But that doesn't sound as good as a nice round number like 10. Plus actual available capacity differs based on formatting and sector sizes.