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Posted Jun 17, 2005 @ 9:07 pm by rocknrolldamnation - 828 views

Could anyone tell me how much 1 GB is? Thanks.

Posted Jun 17, 2005 @ 9:13 pm by rhece6

1000 mb

Posted Jun 17, 2005 @ 11:35 pm by acdcUSSR

i think its actually 1024 MB

Posted Jun 18, 2005 @ 1:27 am by jdd1510

Yep 1024

Posted Jun 18, 2005 @ 11:50 am by acdcUSSR

but when you buy a dvd burner, cd burner, external/internal hard drive, etc. it will say "1000 bytes=1 KB, 1000KB=1 MB, 1000MB= 1GB" but its actually 1024 instead of 1000 for bytes, KB, and MB, correct?

Posted Jun 18, 2005 @ 11:28 pm by BrianJohnson888

That's true. That's why alot of people are surprised when they bring home their 120GB hard drive, and find out there's only 111GB of free space. Most people don't know the difference between manufacturer calculated space, and ACTUAL calculated space.

Posted Jun 19, 2005 @ 6:44 am by flying.fudge

um you forgot to mention why it's 111GB of free space. You do actually get 120 gigs free hdd space, it's just when you partition the hard drive with the system files, it uses up a few gigs. You can change your partition space to get more hdd space but yeah that's how it's done. It's got nothing to do with manufacturer space and actual space if you're comparing the two.

Posted Jul 2, 2005 @ 12:05 pm by rocknrolldamnation

Ok thanks

Posted Jul 26, 2005 @ 7:34 am by highvoltageacdc

Flying.fudge is 100% correct.