Originally posted by: Heisenberg
It's most likely just due to the difference in the way the HD manufacturers and the OS view the size of the drive. Read this.
Thank you for the URL to the kibibyte information. Makes sense but the conversion over to kibibyte may never happen.
Originally posted by: Nothinman
Thank you for the URL to the kibibyte information. Makes sense but the conversion over to kibibyte may never happen.
It might have had a chance if they didn't pick a word that sounded so gay.
Although most of the abreviations in Linux have been converted from 'MB' to 'MiB' where appropriate.
Originally posted by: nick1985
another one of "these" threads....
your computer reads a gig as 1000 meg, windows sees a gig as 1024 meg, or i heard something like that