>> First, most (all?) hard drive manufacturers define 1gb as 1000mb. >> In reality, 1gb is 1024mb. Therefore, a hard drive that is sold as >> a 320gb > In fact they are giving you more than you asked for. Giga is a prefix > for 10^x series. So really they should be giving you 1000000000 bytes This is absolutely correct. A Gigabyte (GB) is 1,000,000,000 (10^9) bytes. A Gibibyte (GiB) is 1,073,741,824 (2^30) bytes. This has been the official definition (according to NIST, BIPM, IEEE and others) for several years. OT: I always found it interesting that the 1.44 Mbyte disk is actually 1.44 x 1024 x 1000, so it's neither 1.44 MB nor 1.44 MiB.
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