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Ignore him he is rambling.

mine seems to be back up again. arb question do you actually get 232gig hdd? Cos im sending allthe new pc info to the insurers and for some reason my pc says 232gig drive and i thought it was 250.
 
Wyvern said:
Ignore him he is rambling.

mine seems to be back up again. arb question do you actually get 232gig hdd? Cos im sending allthe new pc info to the insurers and for some reason my pc says 232gig drive and i thought it was 250.
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You hard drive is a 250gig, but you can't use the entire 250gig. I dont quite know why, but ja thats how it is unfortunately...
 
sycogrim said:
Ok well lemme rephrase that.... Your HQ is a fscked up place :rolleyes:
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Well....I can't really argue. Cape Town is just a little fkd up :D

@ Wyvern. It's always like that. You never get the full disk space.

I found this on the NET.

Most operating systems define a hard disk drive's capacity using binary or base-2 mathematics. This translates to 1 gigabyte (GB) equal to 1,073,741,824 bytes. This is the correct value when using binary or base-2 mathematics.
However, hard disk drive manufacturers define drive sizes using base-10 mathematics, in which 1 GB is equal to 1,000,000,000 bytes (rather than the 1,073,741,824 bytes, as listed above).

This discrepancy in reporting drive sizes (base-2 vs. base-10) may lead you to believe that you have a hard disk drive of less than expected capacity if you compare the figure reported by the operating system with the figure reported by your documentation, although the actual hard drive size is identical. Microsoft Windows counts the size differently, and will report a different, slightly smaller, figure.

Base10 - 40GB
Base2 - 38.1GB

Base10 - 80GB
Base2 - 76.2GB

Base10 - 100GB
Base2 - 95.3GB

Base10 - 120GB
Base2 - 114.4GB

Base10 - 160GB
Base2 - 152.5GB

Base10 - 200GB
Base2 - 190.7GB
Source(s):
Dell

So basically, they just round it off in base 10. Which is not entirely accurate.
 
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czc said:
Something about windows.
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to0kenZA said:
Well....I can't really argue. Cape Town is just a little fkd up :D

@ Wyvern. It's always like that. You never get the full disk space.

I found this on the NET.

Most operating systems define a hard disk drive's capacity using binary or base-2 mathematics. This translates to 1 gigabyte (GB) equal to 1,073,741,824 bytes. This is the correct value when using binary or base-2 mathematics.
However, hard disk drive manufacturers define drive sizes using base-10 mathematics, in which 1 GB is equal to 1,000,000,000 bytes (rather than the 1,073,741,824 bytes, as listed above).

This discrepancy in reporting drive sizes (base-2 vs. base-10) may lead you to believe that you have a hard disk drive of less than expected capacity if you compare the figure reported by the operating system with the figure reported by your documentation, although the actual hard drive size is identical. Microsoft Windows counts the size differently, and will report a different, slightly smaller, figure.

Base10 - 40GB
Base2 - 38.1GB

Base10 - 80GB
Base2 - 76.2GB

Base10 - 100GB
Base2 - 95.3GB

Base10 - 120GB
Base2 - 114.4GB

Base10 - 160GB
Base2 - 152.5GB

Base10 - 200GB
Base2 - 190.7GB
Source(s):
Dell

So basically, they just round it off in base 10. Which is not entirely accurate.
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Thanks dude, that actually makes much more sense now... So technically speaking we aren't getting what we pay for??
 
Yea I always knew you dont get to use the full drive, but normally its a smaller variable and for some reason mine is saying 232gb as the full drive and not 250 which it normally shows. Just thought it was very weird.
 
Wyvern said:
Yea I always knew you dont get to use the full drive, but normally its a smaller variable and for some reason mine is saying 232gb as the full drive and not 250 which it normally shows. Just thought it was very weird.
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Dead sectors maybe...
 
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