No idea why (maybe marketing reason), but they always divided by 1000, not
1024, so when you see a label 9.1G, it's not. My 6.4G harddisk shows real size
is 6.01G. Do they know 1Gb is 1024Mb, 1Mb is 1024Kb? I guess they know it, but
never using it.

J Qian

"Changhsu P. Liu" wrote:

> I think I have seen explanation before, but I don't remember the details.
> I bought a 9.1GB drive and according to the specification it's 9.1GB
> formatted. But, after I formatted it, it showed up as only around 8.5GB. Do
> HD manufacturers use different scale system than most OSs (e.g., divided by
> 1000 instead of 1024 so their numbers are always bigger than the actual
> number shown on our system)? Why do they continue to do that if I rember
> the reason correctly?

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