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Main - msg db 'Computer Address',0xa - Crit hard drive capacity (or, how much shit do -you- have on your computer?)
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Taryn
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I have what was billed as 1 TB of hard drive space, although Windows only says 917 GB. Of that space, "only" 113 GB is used, which is still bigger than my last computer's entire hard drive.

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Ugh... I hate how hardware developers think in base 10 when they market drives and other discs. I just got two 32GB microSD cards off of ebay (I posted when I got them the other day, too) but the Wii, PSP and laptop only see 29.4 or so because of the whole factor of 24 that got chopped off.

Why is it so hard to make disks in binary measure?

Taryn
Posted on 07-15-12 06:08 AM (rev. 2 of 07-15-12 06:08 AM by Taryn) Link | ID: 20538
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It's probably just another way for companies to screw over their customers. Counting in base 10 gives them a higher number, so they'd sell more hard drives that someone who uses the more honest binary measure.

Back in the days of floppies, it was common for floppy manufacturers to use a weird hybrid 1024000-byte megabyte, which was neither a decimal 1000000 bytes nor a binary 1048576 bytes. That always bugged the hell out of me.

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As much as I can see how it bugs you, you have to give them credit for at least feigning a faithfulness to the actual data space. Nowadays, they don't even try.
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