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Question about ipod memory capacity

Primal Wolf

Junior Member
My brother is a Marine, so he has a hard time getting to a computer let alone on a tech forum, so heres the question he has:
His IPod is a 20 gig, and when he plugged it in and checked it out he found that he is starting with only 16 Gigs memory capacity. Do the ipods need to use up 4 gigs for other uses? or has he gotten an ipod with a "Hard drive" that wasnt written very well? I know computer hard drives rarely equal exactly up to the memory space advertised, and is this the same deal on the ipods?
 
I'd say something is goofy with his. When I first formatted my 20 GB iPod, I got 18.5 GB of usable space. Are you sure he doesn't have anything on it alrieady?
 
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