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Old 26-10-2006, 22:32
neelia
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Just bought one.

It is telling me thatit's capacity is 7.4 gb. Shouldn't it be 8?
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Old 26-10-2006, 22:49
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With a lot of USB devices it says that the capacity is less than what the capacity should be
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Old 26-10-2006, 23:06
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A portion of the space on a disk is taken up by the formatting information that marks sector headings, boundary definitions, timing information and other ‘overhead’.

For this reason, a disk's storage total depends on if you are looking at the formatted (the usable capacity of a disk drive) or unformatted capacity. It is normal for a disk to be sold quoting the unformatted capacity, one reason being that there are many different disk formats.

The larger the disk capacity the more you 'loose'.

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Old 26-10-2006, 23:21
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Thanks for the reply.

So I shouldn't send it back and complain then
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Old 27-10-2006, 14:29
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Originally Posted by neelia
Thanks for the reply.

So I shouldn't send it back and complain then
Nope - even my mini iPod does not show the full 6gb of space (I think they use the space to put the iPods features on (games etc)).
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Old 27-10-2006, 14:56
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Yep, same here. My 1GB (1024mb) Shuffle shows as 997MB
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Old 29-10-2006, 23:17
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My 250GB hard drives actual cappacity is 228GB!
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Old 29-10-2006, 23:24
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It happens with ALL hard disks.
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Old 07-11-2006, 00:05
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its the same with all hard drives.................my 120gb hard drive has 111gb actual formatted space....something to do with there being 1024 bits per 1 kb
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