[X4U] External HD: 750 gig to 699 when formatted. Why???

[Christopher Collins]

On 12/06/2009, at 12:35 AM, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> At 1:27 PM -0400 5/24/09, Germain M. wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I bought a SimpleTech 750gig external HD. It was Windows formatted  
>> in the first place. Once mounted, info window showed the drive had  
>> 699 gig free. As
>
> It is simple, hard drive manufacturers lie.  They count 1GB as  
> 1,000,000,000 bytes rather than 1,024,000,000 bytes.  Those extra  
> Megabytes add up on the large drives depressingly fast.
>
> Zane
>
>

Actually Zane, the HDD manufacturers count 1GB as 1,000,000,000 rather  
than 1,048,576 bytes (1024 * 1024).

cjc