Maxtor 120GB --> only 115GB formatted? Normal??

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: nick1985
if i had a nickel for everytime ive seen a thread like this....id have a vagina full of nickels

wtf ever happened to a piggy bank for the love of p00n

 

[Kk4JC]

Sorry to keep this going, but I didn't notice This.

Kk

 

[BoberFett]

Funny how when this subject comes up, people will come in and bitch about how everybody is wrong when they say that 1 MB is 1,000,000 bytes and not 1,048,576. Presumably this is to display their superior intellect.

But those same people never bitch about the fact that 1 MB when talking about RAM is binary and not metric, and is thus the exact opposite. Unless of course you can find me some 1,000,000 byte RAM. Which ain't gonna happen. Computers are binary. The fact that hard drive manufacturers decided to take advantage of the fact that a computer kilo-, mega-, giga- are (by most people who have to deal with it for a living) greater than their standard metric counterpart doesn't change the fact that computers don't work on standard metric prefixes. If I want to malloc 1 KB of memory, I'd sure as hell better get 1024 bytes and not 1000 or I'm not going to be happy.

 

[BD231]

The fact is the bastards making hard drives should tell people WTF their going to get when they buy something. Why market a drive at 120gigs when you cant put 120gigs of fvcking info on it no matter what you use? I don't buy a pound of weed and expect a partial amount, it's the whole sack or a bullet in the back. They could at least put a fat lable on the front saying this drive will only let you put so and so amounts of info. on it with such and such OS.

 

[cutty]

115GB is right. Here is the math:
120/1.024/1.024 = 114.44GB