S
Stevie
My 120GB Western Digital hard drive only shows up as
111GB. Why?
111GB. Why?
B
Bruce Chambers
Greetings --
Windows is accurately reporting the true size of your hard drives.
1 Kb = 1024 bytes
1 Mb = 1024 Kb = 1,048,576 bytes
1 Gb = 1024 Mb = 1,073,741,824 bytes
111 x 1,073,741,824 = 119,185,342,464 bytes, which your hard
drive's
manufacturer is rounding off and calling 120 Gb. This is a common
marketing ploy (trying to assign an even 1,000,000,000 bytes to the
gigabyte) used by hard drive manufacturers to make their products seem
a bit larger than they really are.
Bruce Chambers
--
Help us help you:
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. -- RAH
Windows is accurately reporting the true size of your hard drives.
1 Kb = 1024 bytes
1 Mb = 1024 Kb = 1,048,576 bytes
1 Gb = 1024 Mb = 1,073,741,824 bytes
111 x 1,073,741,824 = 119,185,342,464 bytes, which your hard
drive's
manufacturer is rounding off and calling 120 Gb. This is a common
marketing ploy (trying to assign an even 1,000,000,000 bytes to the
gigabyte) used by hard drive manufacturers to make their products seem
a bit larger than they really are.
Bruce Chambers
--
Help us help you:
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. -- RAH
B
Bob I
They also explain it in detail on the outside of the box, in what we
call the fine print.
call the fine print.