2007-03-18 18:02:28 · 2 answers · asked by Viet V 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
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I'm assuming it has a 40GB drive. Well, I'm not going to explain everything to you, but realize that hard drive manufacturers don't list the capacity in the right terms. For some reason, they list a gigabyte being 1,000,000,000 (1 billion) bytes.
But computers understand a gigabyte as 1,073,741,824 bytes, which is from binary base 2. Therefore a 40GB drive, for example, is only 37.2GB when you do the math. There are a lot of ways to explain it, but that's straight to the point.
2007-03-18 18:08:26 · answer #1 · answered by SirCharles 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lots of servers use SCSI drives, and they are not made in the standard, well ordered sizes that ATA/IDE drives are.
2007-03-18 18:09:00 · answer #2 · answered by dogpoop 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋