Stolen Gigabytes

Recently, I purchased a 250 gigabyte hard drive. When I plugged it in, it only read as 230 gigabytes. So how stole my gigabytes? Fortunately, I have a wise friend that explained it quite simply.

The GB loss comes from a conversion. HD vendors say 1000 bytes in a Kb, when there is really 1024 and 1000 Kb in a MB, when there is really 1024.

So it is an issue of hard drive vendors bending the truth. They are using logical math and not computer math. I feel better, but I still feel robbed.

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Published:: 11.20.07 / 9pm

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