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- From: mikew@hpwarha.wal.hp.com (Michael Williams)
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 16:35:19 GMT
- Subject: Re: The maxtor 213 meg drive is NOT 213 megs!
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- References: <lestrade.725128294@Ra.MsState.Edu> <s106275.725140761@ee.tut.fi> <gting.725143054@sfu.ca>
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- In article <gting.725143054@sfu.ca> gting@fraser.sfu.ca (Gabriel Sii Kuok Ting) writes:
- >I thought most manufacturers put down the UNformatted capacity of the drive?
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- I'm not sure it has to do with the formatted or unformatted capacity.
- Perhaps this has to do with the fact that drive manufactures often use
- MB as a shorthand for 1,000,000 bytes, when 1 MB is actually closer to
- 1,048,576 bytes.
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