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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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It is 80 billion bytes, as advertised. Filesystem overhead is only going to be a few megs.
The thing is, most operating systems use binary gigabytes (Gibibytes), which are 1,073,741,824 bytes not 1,000,000,000.