DOS Games Discussion

Gamer_V · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 2:03 am Post subject:

The topic is about Chine spam. What IS relevant? Tbbbbbth!

The discrepancy between the listed GB and actual GB (the round-up numbers) is because the companies list a KB as 1000 Bytes while in reality a KB is 1024 Bytes. As the harddrive size grows in size, the listed and actual capacity grows further and further apart because that 24 Byte difference adds up really, REALLY fast. Capice?

Dosser · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 4:04 am Post subject:

I think everyone 'capiches' (wow, I have no idea if that is a word, and if it is, what it means Shit-Eating Grin

). It doesn't irritate me any less though.

I know when I buy a 40Gb hard drive that it will probably not be 40Gb, I just can't believe hard drive companies have been able to operate on a sort of 'we do the maths differently to the rest of the world' principle for so long.

I think it works the other way with CDs though (not sure): CDs are advertised as 700MB but hold 702MB of data. Not sure if that is due to doing maths differently or just for rounding, but that extra 2MB has saved me a couple of times Shit-Eating Grin

DVDs on the other hand :Angry:

Gamer_V · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 5:49 am Post subject:

I have no idea what discrepancy is, but hey, it's in my explanation! Capice means understood and is sorta Italianic.