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Drive Sizes

• Posted by Bernie Ryan <xotron at bluefrognet.net> Aug 30, 2003
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Just to clear things up about drive sizes.

Hard Drives may be described in to 2 ways.
Formatted and Unformatted.
When a drive is formatted, the format information ( sector numbers, etc.. )
is written on the drive so that takes up space. Different file systems
(Fat32, HFS, FS2, etc.. ) effect the format size of the a drive.
Some manufactures state the size of a drive in formatted size and some don't.
The next confusion is that the size can be stated in bytes or abbreveated
size Kb, MB, TB, etc.. . For example 250KB or 256,000 bytes. in other words
there are 1024 bytes in a kilobyte ( NOT 1000 ). So to convert everything
must be multiplied by 1024.

I hope that this helps to clear this up for anyone who is confused. 

Bernie