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April 17th, 2005, 12:06 AM
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if some one is trying to buy new HD, check its real size...
I made little javascirpt, whitch calkulates the "real" size of your HD.
Click here But it's not acurate, so don't blame me if its wrong.
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April 17th, 2005, 12:42 AM
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I just hope this is a joke...
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April 17th, 2005, 12:43 AM
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so, what's the point really?
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April 17th, 2005, 1:23 AM
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All I need to do is right-click on properties to see how big the drive is... I put mine in just for shits and giggles, it was off by a bit.
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April 17th, 2005, 1:37 AM
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Mine is dead on....
HDs do have certain percentages that it can't use...when a box says 120 Gigs, its not really 120 gigs...its 112 gigs.
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Re: if some one is trying to buy new HD, check its real size
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April 17th, 2005, 2:24 AM
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It's not percentages, Viper, I think it was Viper, explained it before. It's how they count the bytes, manufactuers count a gig as 1000MB and OS's count a gig as 1024MB.
So technically it's not propaganda, just crap The ISO people should do something about that. 
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April 17th, 2005, 2:33 AM
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Ambitious but rubbish!
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Thanks for that link but you have just spoiled my day! Some of you might be aware that i'm in the process of getting a 250GB External H/D...and now I find out its only like 234GB!!!!!!!!!
  http://forum.finalgear.com/viewtopic.php?t=4033&start=0 OMG THAT SUCKS...maybe I should get a 300GB model. |
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April 17th, 2005, 5:01 AM
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who nice. i might get a a big 8mb chache one soon, gonna use this to see the real sizel ol
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April 17th, 2005, 8:44 AM
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Oh, to have a hard drive that big
But yes manufacturer's use this tatic as a marketing scam |
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only google knows, Galantti in the Gear irc channel. "no money, no funny, no life, just adsl and torrents" - c ME TG > TGA/TGR/FG @43.90 € ~55,53 $ ~39,33 £ / month with no limits!
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1024 comes from 2^32 (2, 4, 8, 16, 32, etc.). 1000 comes from 1, 10, 100, 1000, etc. Just two different methods and I'm not sure if there is a set standard or not.
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Could'nt you have let me think it was? Well not to worry I still do. Can't say I've actually ever seen a hdd box, when you buy wholesale they come in clear flimsy plastic packets with not a marking on the packaging whatsoever 8) |
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then there is hexadecimal and octal number system, with i think are also used in computer world.
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only google knows, Galantti in the Gear irc channel. "no money, no funny, no life, just adsl and torrents" - c ME TG > TGA/TGR/FG @43.90 € ~55,53 $ ~39,33 £ / month with no limits!
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only google knows, Galantti in the Gear irc channel. "no money, no funny, no life, just adsl and torrents" - c ME TG > TGA/TGR/FG @43.90 € ~55,53 $ ~39,33 £ / month with no limits!
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only google knows, Galantti in the Gear irc channel. "no money, no funny, no life, just adsl and torrents" - c ME TG > TGA/TGR/FG @43.90 € ~55,53 $ ~39,33 £ / month with no limits!
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only google knows, Galantti in the Gear irc channel. "no money, no funny, no life, just adsl and torrents" - c ME TG > TGA/TGR/FG @43.90 € ~55,53 $ ~39,33 £ / month with no limits!
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Its not a marketing scam, if youve ever bought a HD in your life, you would know about this, we've discussed this before, its a way they calculate vs the way its normally calculated. Plus their is always a disclaimer on the box. once you get used to the difference, it doesnt matter anyway.
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