Just a question thats puzzeled me for a while...

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SilentRabbit

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This isnt exactly an important thread but im just curious, why are things like Hard Drives and SSD's advertised as having more memory than they actually do?

Then RAM you get hwat you pay for?

If somebody could explain that would be great :)
 
You always get what you paid for, you just have to keep in consideration that

1. you have to use the right calculations to convert bytes or kb to GB
2. sometimes your system uses a part of your HDD or SDD as a recovery, and you might not be able to see this easily
 
Its the difference in The International System of Units/SI and International Electrotechnical Commission/IEC.
 
SilentRabbit said:
This isnt exactly an important thread but im just curious, why are things like Hard Drives and SSD's advertised as having more memory than they actually do?

Then RAM you get hwat you pay for?

If somebody could explain that would be great :)
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Because hard drive sizes use SI units, ie 1000 bytes per KB, 1000 KB per MB etc.

The OS sees it as it actually is - 1024 bytes per KB, 1024 KB per MB etc.

RAm is sold as 1024MB (1GB), 2048MB (2GB) etc, as the system sees it
 
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