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

[Michael Winter]

On Jun 11, 2009, at 9:06 PM, Randy B. Singer wrote:
> A 750GB drive should have a 55,500MB loss when formatted, for a  
> total formatted size of about 694.6GB.  You got off easy.

That seemed like it was still a bit high for "lost space", so I just  
had to break out the calculator.
750,000,000,000 bytes, divide by 1024 yields
732,421,800 kB, divide by 1024 gives
715,256 MB, divide one more time by 1024 equals
698.5 GB.

So much for what "seemed right" to me. I was guessing it should have  
been ~710.

-Mike