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Hard Drive Disk Space?

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galbicake

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I got a 160 GB Seagate HD and I just installed it and it only shows 149GB as available free space.

Is this normal? It seems pretty high to me.

Thanks
 
Hard drive manufacturers measure space using the normal definition of "mega" and "giga". Thus, 1 megabyte to them is 1,000,000 bytes. Your OS measures it in base 2. Thus, 1 megabyte is a bit more than 1,000,000 bytes (forget the exact number).

Essentially, it's two different ways of stating the same number, but, confusingly, both ways are called the same thing ("gigabytes").

-Erwos
 
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