>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? >Any explanations on this?
>
>
There maybe a more technical explaination, but I think its similar to the
reason Intel used DX4 rather than DX3  and used 100 instead of 99 for the
DX4/100mhz chip.....Marketing....it sounds bigger & better.....

David Olds

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