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

[Nick Scalise]

---- Shawn King <shawn at yourmaclifeshow.com> wrote: 

> According to Ars Technica, the OS tracks hard drive capacity in terms of
> base 2 numbers. So 1MB is usually equal to 1,024KB, and 1GB is equal to
> 1,024MB. But hard drive manufactures have for years used more common base 10
> counting, so 1MB equals 1,000KB, 1GB equals 1,000MB, as so on.
> 
> <http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/06/more-of-those-snow-leopard-enhanc
> ements-and-refinements.ars>
> 
> That accounts for the discrepancy. 

> The good news is that Snow Leopard will adopt the same convention and you should get that space back.

Very interesting. Do you have a link where we can read more about that announcement?

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Nick Scalise
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