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Hard Drive Capacity Confusion, Lucidly Explained

Posted by timothy on from the fudging-the-numbers dept.

mrklin writes "James Wiebe of wiebetech.com has written a clear example of how hard drive capacity is calculated (PDF file) by hard drive manufacturers (base 10) and OS (base 2). He failed to name how the capacity should be described, though."

3 of 482 comments (clear)

  1. What's the deal today? by autopr0n · · Score: -1, Troll

    First an article about the Scroll-lock key and now this? Have the editors decided we are morons now or something?

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    autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
  2. Germans don't do comedy... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Germans do beer...

    and politics.

    Actually, arnold's austrian, but who cares.

    YYYEEEEEHA!!!

  3. Mod Parent Up... by Superfreak · · Score: -1, Troll

    I remember this as well - around '92-93, IIRC. And it was a controversy at the time. I remember our reseller making a point of the differences between manufacturers & capacity.