Gone Retarded...

[The Hobo]

I seem to have gone retarded. Is this correct?:

1 - 1,000 = BYTE
1,001 - 100,000 = KB
100,001 - ?? = MB

Help??

[Rick Bull]

Isn't it 1,024 bytes in a kb, 1,024Kb in a MB, etc?

[The Hobo]

Yes. But that'd just confuse me in my conversions.

I just need to know how many bytes in a KB, MB, etc?

[Sastraxi]

B = 1024 ^ 0
KB = 1024 ^ 1
MB = 1024 ^ 2
GB = 1024 ^ 3
TB = 1024 ^ 4
PB = 1024 ^ 5
EB = 1024 ^ 6

[The Hobo]

Thanks!

[Michael_Kamen]

What are PB's and EB's? never heard of them.
And since they are so large, is it likely we're going to use them in the near future?

[Si_the_geek]

They are already being used for large databases :eek: well.. petabytes (pb's) are anyway!

[Behemoth]

The search string:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=kilo%2C+mega%2C+giga%2C+tera

result:
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci499008,00.html

and:
http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/tek1/prefixes.htm

but also, interestingly: http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci825099,00.html

[JoshT]

Note that hard drive manufacturers cheat when they say the size of the drive...

[Si_the_geek]

no they dont, they just choose to use the definition that suits them best... effectively the same thing tho :rolleyes:

[ricmitch_uk]

Originally posted by JoshT
Note that hard drive manufacturers cheat when they say the size of the drive...

Yeah! I was promised a 10GB HD with this PC when it was new... It's only 9.72 when formatted.

[msimmons]

Originally posted by ricmitch_uk


Yeah! I was promised a 10GB HD with this PC when it was new... It's only 9.72 when formatted.

I have a 30gb that reports as 27.8. What I lost is bigger than some of my older hard drives :)
Michael

[Sastraxi]

The total number of gigabytes are not gigabytes. They are 1000 ^ 3 and NOT 1024 ^ 3 bytes. Therefore, since these phantom gigabytes are undersized, a whole TRUE gigabyte cannot fit in it. Basically, you can get the REAL size of your disk this way:

## GB / 1073741824 * 1000000000 (or ## GB / 1024 ^ 3 * 1000 ^ 3)

Hence, a 40gb drive is actually 37.25gb.

[Zaei]

Ill bet there is a planet somewhere where all of those phantom gigabytes gather together, and live the good gigabyte life!

Too bad its not in my PC =(.

Z.

[The Hobo]

*hides everyone's phantom-gigs in his computer* :D

[ricmitch_uk]

lol.

*works out how much his 80GB HD is really going to be...*

[ricmitch_uk]

:eek: The Hobo's gettin 5.5GB of my new HD :rolleyes:

[The Hobo]

:p