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Originally posted by oblar
am i the only one annoyed by hard drive manufacturers that have begun to advertise drives as 80gigabyte hard drive, yet they are only 74gigs?
how come they cannot be busted for false advertisement?  it makes me a sad panda.
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that is an unformatted size...some drives will give you less space depending on the manufacturer of the drive. also there are alternative filesystems that will give you more space. FAT32 is by far not the most efficient filesystem