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    Conversions

    I dont know if this is in the right forum, sorry if its not.

    Is 1 million (1 000 000) megabytes 1 terabyte or not.

    If not can you correct me please.
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    No. One Terabyte is 2^40, 1000 Gigabytes, or 1,099,511,627,776 Bytes

    I made a recent post here with exact numbers:

    http://www.xmboard.com/viewtopic.php?t=42

    The values kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, etc, are basically multiples of 2^10 since they're based on the binary number system or Base2.
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    I'm sorry, I just re-read your question and realized I read it wrong. You are almost correct.

    1 Terabyte is 1,048,576 Megabytes.

    Sizes are not in multiples of 10 or 1000, they're in multiples of 2^10, or 1024.
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    Yes, 1 000 000 Mb is 1 terabyte(or 0.953674 to be exact)
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    Isn't it multiplications of 1024?

    1024 bytes in a kilobyte
    1024 kilobytes in a megabyte
    1024 megabytes in a gigabytes
    1024 gigabytes in a terabyte

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    Originally posted by Hero Doug
    Isn't it multiplications of 1024?

    1024 bytes in a kilobyte
    1024 kilobytes in a megabyte
    1024 megabytes in a gigabytes
    1024 gigabytes in a terabyte
    Yes, 1024 is 2^10. I was editing my post as you replied I completely butchered my posts and could only edit one. I hate the 15 minute time limit, I find it pointless.
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    I hate the 15 minute time limit, I find it pointless.
    So do I

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    Perhaps it's good for some things to remain "on the record" if you know what I mean...

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    yep, it's all close enough for government work

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    Actually you can also define 1 MB as 1.000.000 bytes. 1&1 does this in their terms and as you know harddrive companies specify the size in GB while 1 GB is 1000000000 Bytes. But that 2.4% difference is not important anyway !

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    Originally posted by taketo
    Actually you can also define 1 MB as 1.000.000 bytes. 1&1 does this in their terms and as you know harddrive companies specify the size in GB while 1 GB is 1000000000 Bytes. But that 2.4% difference is not important anyway !
    Not true.
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    Originally posted by taketo
    Actually you can also define 1 MB as 1.000.000 bytes. 1&1 does this in their terms and as you know harddrive companies specify the size in GB while 1 GB is 1000000000 Bytes. But that 2.4% difference is not important anyway !
    Of course it is important!
    Its also unfair!
    I have a 250gb drive.. i lost 6gb on it
    80gb drive - 1.92 gb
    20gb drive - .48 gb
    so thats.. 8.4 gb lost.
    Terrible...





    [kidding.. lol ]

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    You lost space from file system allocation, not from incorrect conversions. This is normal.
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    No, i lost space from incorrect conversions.
    When i buy a 250 gb drive.. its not really..
    250 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 bytes
    its 250 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 bytes

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    What company HD?
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    Just looked at a Maxtor instruction book I had around and they use 1000 for everything rather then 1024.
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    All companies..
    Maxtor, Seagate, Western Digital.

    It might not matter for a 100gb drive..
    but on a terabyte of storage.. it makes a difference.

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    Yes, all HD companies use 1000MB = 1GB ... There was a class action lawsuit about this not too long ago ... For misrepresentation of hard drive space.
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