Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 16.04.06 22:56, Willie Wonka wrote: > > Explained another way (hopefully); > > If you bought a 1,000 Byte (1KB) HDD - you'd lose 24 *Bytes* > > No. The big 'K' stands for 1024, 1000 is small 'k'. > The big 'K' was chosen exactly to differ 1024 from 1000 - small 'k'. > > But this can't be applied for 'M' because big 'M' is 1 000 000, while smal > 'm' is 0.001 (1/1000). > > > If you bought a 1,000,000 Byte (1MB) HDD - you'd lose 48 *KiloBytes* > > If you bought a 1,000,000,000 Byte (1GB) HDD - you'd lose 73 > > *MegaBytes* > > If you bought a 1,000,000,000,000 Byte (1TB) HDD - you'd lose 99 > > *GigaBytes* > > Luckily, HDD manufacturers count with KB/KiB (1024B)'s, so 10GB HDD was > counted as 1 000 000 KB - 1 024 000 000 Bytes. This was because HDD's use > 512B sectors, and it's easier to divide number of sectors by 2 than to > multiply it by 512.
No they don't. This is what fdisk reports for my 20 GB HDD: Disk /dev/hda: 20.0 GB, 20003880960 bytes 240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2584 cylinders Regards Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
