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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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There is an explaination
provided by Dan on Dan's Data about the differece between the two sizes and how the companies get away with it. It is in the the letter about halfway down the page titled: Megabytes ain't megabytes (the saga continues).