Hard Drive Sizes#
Finally someone is taking computer manufactures to task for advertising hard drive sizes in a false manner.

Hard drives store BINARY data. 1000 bytes != 1 KB, 1000 KB != 1MB, and 1000 MB != 1 GB.

So what does that mean?

1 GB is really 1,073,741,824 bytes. So the result is that a hard drive that is a "150GB" hard drive is really only going to store around 140GB of data. You just got screwed out of 10GB!

Here is the story.
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