PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post

23rd November 2005 | 08:09

#3 (permalink)

Jhieminga

Joined: Mar 2002

: CPL

Posts: 3,394

Likes: 326

From: near an aeroplane

Quote:

My '4.7GB' disks also showed as '4.38GB' capacity - huh!

Isn't this just the difference between seeing a kbit as 1000 or 1024 bits? Similarly a 512 Mb memory card will only show 489 Mb usable. Just a different way of counting bits!