Fact About Hard Disks

Fact About Hard Disks,Have you ever wondered why the 250 GB hard disk have less than 233 GB?

All Hard Disk manufacturer way of counting space is different from the way a software count a space.

This means to a Hard Disk Manufacturer,
1 GB = 1000 MB,
1 MB=1000 KB and so on.

Software or computer language recognize a space in terms of power of 2.
1 KB = 1024 Bytes.

Lets do a little math:
From a Manufacturer a 250 GB harddisk is 250 x 1000 x 1000 x 1000 = 250000000000 Bytes
From the Computer Language point of view a 250000000000 Bytes is: 250000000000/(1024*1024*1024)=232.83 GB

Now you’ll see why your 250 GB hard disk has only less than 232.83 GB space in total. Well if you go with higher space like 500 GB and so on the space missing is increasing.

Fact About Hard Disks

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