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Apple Mobile Products: iPhone, iPad, iPod
iPod Hardware and Accessories
Ipod classic down 9gb out of the box?
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<blockquote data-quote="Kash" data-source="post: 758824" data-attributes="member: 23444"><p>It's actually quite simple. Operating systems see hard drive space in base 2, which means a single gigabyte is 1024MB. Hard drive manufacturers, on the other hand, use base 10, which means a single gigabyte is 1000MB. So as you can see, there is a 24MB "loss" for every gigabyte between what a hard drive manufacturer claims and what is actually seen by the operating system.</p><p></p><p>That's a highly simplified way of putting it, but that's roughly the gist of it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kash, post: 758824, member: 23444"] It's actually quite simple. Operating systems see hard drive space in base 2, which means a single gigabyte is 1024MB. Hard drive manufacturers, on the other hand, use base 10, which means a single gigabyte is 1000MB. So as you can see, there is a 24MB "loss" for every gigabyte between what a hard drive manufacturer claims and what is actually seen by the operating system. That's a highly simplified way of putting it, but that's roughly the gist of it. [/QUOTE]
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