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New 8gb ipod nano
neelia
26-10-2006
Just bought one.

It is telling me thatit's capacity is 7.4 gb. Shouldn't it be 8?
idontthinkso
26-10-2006
With a lot of USB devices it says that the capacity is less than what the capacity should be
Stella Artois
26-10-2006
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'.
Last edited by dlloyd : 26-10-2006 at 23:26
neelia
26-10-2006
Thanks for the reply.

So I shouldn't send it back and complain then
Mark in Essex
27-10-2006
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)).
Embrace
27-10-2006
Yep, same here. My 1GB (1024mb) Shuffle shows as 997MB
Waffles
29-10-2006
My 250GB hard drives actual cappacity is 228GB!
jammers
29-10-2006
It happens with ALL hard disks.
dangrmouse
07-11-2006
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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