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The old 1 GB = 1000MB instead of 1024MB marketing trick reduces usable space to ~119GB even before you start subtracting the OS space.
by cooldeal 14y ago
The old 1 GB = 1000MB instead of 1024MB marketing trick reduces usable space to ~119GB even before you start subtracting the OS space.
- ghshephard 14y agoIt's not a trick. Giga = 10^9 for 100% of everything except memory. Bandwidth, Disk Space are measured in SI units.
- lucian1900 14y agoMemory too. There's a difference between GiB (power of 2) and GB (power of 10).
- RobAtticus 14y agoI believe his point is that memory manufacturers advertised 1GB of RAM which is actually 1GiB. So for advertised memory, 1GB = 1024MB.
- ghshephard 14y agoFair point, I agree that the proper terminology, it should be GiB to be explicit. I was just trying to point out, that the only time you should ever consider GB might mean 2^30 is with memory (and it usually does with memory). You should always assume that GB means 10^9 in all other scenarios. Bandwidth, Disk Space - GB always means 10^9.