Gone Retarded...

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

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

Help??

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

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

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

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

Thanks!

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?

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

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

result:
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definit...499008,00.html

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

but also, interestingly: http://whatis.techtarget.com/definit...825099,00.html

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

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

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

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

Quote:

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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.

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

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.

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.

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

lol.

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

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

:p