Comments on: When is a Gig a Gig?

By: Walter

Walter — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:12:48 +0000

my 250GB HDD registers only at 236GB

By: vance

vance — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:17:36 +0000

the difference is on how manufacturers calculate the disk space from the physical size.

But still 70Gb is alot of movies, music and pictures.

By: Goe Dee

Goe Dee — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:57:53 +0000

I learned this computation in my Computer class back in High School i think. The thing that I didn’t know is, Seagate people didn’t know it. They used mega for 1,000,000. and kilo for 1,000 which is not wrong. But the right computation must me base on Bytes and Bits.

By: andre

andre — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:55:54 +0000

dapat kasi para di na ambiguous, we use “i” in between the prefix and the “B” to denote base 2 prefixes, e.g.

1 KiB = 1,024 bytes
1 KB = 1,000 bytes

1 MiB = 1,048,576 bytes
1 MB = 1,000,000 bytes

kung maging standard sana yun ganyang usage, walang ambiguity.

By: brewedminds

brewedminds — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:27:33 +0000

The lesson here is to always check the items or products you’ll buy.

By: J

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:37:17 +0000

maybe they should start using MiB instead of MB?

By: leo

leo — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:31:54 +0000

they’re even suing GOD over there.

By: Red

Red — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:37:23 +0000

No wonder my 512MB usb flash disk just goes only 490.2MB. Even if its freakin empty, and i’ve like formatted and partitioned it a couple of times, it just apears to be 400 plus in mb.

mine’s in kingston.

By: pao

pao — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 11:45:01 +0000

gee. I’ve always known 1GB isnt really 1GB, but I never cared to demand it to be otherwise.

By: teampilipinas blog

teampilipinas blog — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:42:56 +0000

The usage of the word “gigabyte” is ambiguous, depending on the context…

-One gigabyte is roughly equal to 18 hours of MP3 music at 128 kbit/s

-One gigabyte is roughly equivalent to 12 hours of Flash Video (at 450×370)

-Dual-layer Blu-ray Discs and dual-layer HD DVD discs can hold about 50 gigabytes (50,000,000,000 bytes) and 30 gigabytes (30,000,000,000 bytes) of data, respectively

just an info… cheers.. YUGAbyte!!! keep it up!

By: Lloyd Lopez

Lloyd Lopez — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 05:09:31 +0000

I already submitted a claim for my Seagate 320gb HD I bought last March (Newegg). Supposedly, I should receive a backup and recovery software from them. Still waiting for their response though…

By: ordnacin

ordnacin — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 05:08:54 +0000

Gotta love the american justice system, next up mp3 players advertising gazillions hours of play on only 15 minutes worth of battery charge…

By: sylv3rblade

sylv3rblade — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 03:03:06 +0000

it’s America.. people get sued for the weirdest of things. Remember the lawsuit on Apple about the iPhone price drop?

By: minor

minor — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 02:10:55 +0000

not a big deal to me

By: BrianB

BrianB — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:30:25 +0000

The difference is worth a week of porn.