Acadia opened this issue on Jan 31, 2009 ยท 43 posts
svdl posted Sat, 31 January 2009 at 11:25 AM
Remember that disk manufactuerers use another definition for megabyte, gigabyte and terabyte than the official ones. For example a 750 gigabyte harddisk actually has 750,000,000,000 bytes, which equals 698 "real" gigabytes.
So when you format that 1.5 Tb drive, expect to get somewhat less than 1400 "real" gigabytes.
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