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Can There Be 111.47Gb Har Drive Capacity?
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<blockquote data-quote="vansmith" data-source="post: 1016796" data-attributes="member: 71075"><p>It's the way hard drive space is calculated. Take a quick look at <a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2419" target="_blank">this</a> article. Take a look at <a href="http://www.diskview.com/disk-size-discrepancy.htm" target="_blank">this</a> too - replace Windows with OS X and it will make sense. This changed with OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) where they use base-10 notation. In other words, 10.6 reports my 320 GB HD as 320.07 GB (why the 0.07 is there is beyond me). You haven't lost space - it was just calculated differently. OS X pre-10.6 uses base-2 notation to calculate space (as noted in that Apple KB article).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vansmith, post: 1016796, member: 71075"] It's the way hard drive space is calculated. Take a quick look at [URL="http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2419"]this[/URL] article. Take a look at [URL="http://www.diskview.com/disk-size-discrepancy.htm"]this[/URL] too - replace Windows with OS X and it will make sense. This changed with OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) where they use base-10 notation. In other words, 10.6 reports my 320 GB HD as 320.07 GB (why the 0.07 is there is beyond me). You haven't lost space - it was just calculated differently. OS X pre-10.6 uses base-2 notation to calculate space (as noted in that Apple KB article). [/QUOTE]
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