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donkey42 · 03-07-2008, 05:32 PM

a Gb as we all know is a measure of space (HDD or RAM)
HDD are sold unformatted, so, after formatting you will lose some space (about 7%)

GiB = an unformatted amount of space
Gb = Gigabyte, a formatted amount of space we all understand

so, HDD should really be sold as 160GiB, not 160Gb because a 160GiB HDD is only 149.8Gb ish, this so called waste of space is actually used by the HDD for error correction & stuff

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donkey42 Paranoid Geeky Geek Join Date: Mar 2006 Age: 34 Male Posts: 5,826 Times Helpful: 309 My Mood: Paranoid Status: Offline My Computer	GiB explained a Gb as we all know is a measure of space (HDD or RAM) HDD are sold unformatted, so, after formatting you will lose some space (about 7%) GiB = an unformatted amount of space Gb = Gigabyte, a formatted amount of space we all understand so, HDD should really be sold as 160GiB, not 160Gb because a 160GiB HDD is only 149.8Gb ish, this so called waste of space is actually used by the HDD for error correction & stuff __________________ GRUB manual \| Google Linux \| Distrowatch \| Linux Chix \| Kubuntu \| My Mini City Last edited by donkey42; 03-07-2008 at 09:18 PM. Reason: edit