Teh maths make it no less disappointing. <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/9/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Taco Mel</b> <<a href="mailto:taco_mel@yahoo.com">taco_mel@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> cfdisk reports both of my HD501LJ Size:<br>><br>> 500105.25 (MB)<br><br>Keep in mind that 500 GB as specified by the<br>manufacturer is based on 1000 rather than 1024. This<br>makes their storage capacity seem larger than it
<br>really is. The disk manufacturers say that 500 GB =<br>500*1000*1000*1000 bytes.<br><br>To convert your capacity into what the computer sees<br>we divide 500,105,250,000 bytes by 1024^3 and this<br>comes out to: 465.7593
GiB.<br><br>Your "missing" 35 gigabytes is explained by this calculation.<br><br><br> ____________________________________________________________________________________<br>Check out the hottest 2008 models today at Yahoo! Autos.
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