base 10 and base 2 hard drives

[nehalmistry]

the capacity of my hard drive is:
6.4gig in base 10 mode
6.1gig in base 2 mode

i know its not such a biggie.. but currently its in base 2 mode and i was wondering how to change it to base 10 mode...

and whats the difference?

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P5A-B MoBo w/AMD K6-266@300 (100mhz FSB)
Matrox Milleniumm G200 AGP (oh, lets party)
Creative SB Awe32 (a classic, superb card)
Realtek 8029A NIC Card
64meg 100mhz SDRam
Ali V agp chipset (2x)
6.4 gig HD 5400 RPM UDMA 66
ALI 1543 IDE Controller (ATA 33)
Optiquest Q53 15" Monitor
Actima 36X CD-Rom
Windows 95B
ICQ UIN: 24730025

[SteveC]

You can't - it's all a marketing thing - it makes your hard drive look like, and be sold as a, 6.4Gig, when in reality, it's only 6.1Gig.

Just depends on how you work out the capacity - do you use 1Kilobyte = 1000Bytes, or does it equal 1024Bytes....

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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[Wombat]

Sorry nehal,
Those aren't modes. Just counting. Somewhere along the way marketing decided to redefine the MB so that it was 10^6 bytes, instead of 2^20. That shrinks the MB a little bit. It really just pisses me off. I couldn't redefine the mile to 5000 feet just to improve the MPG rating for my car, but this isn't any different.

[nehalmistry]

oh i c... base 10 and base 2... mathematical thing.... that is very cheap... im pissed...... but im guessing you cant do anything about it except be careful... all companies probably do this....

so i guess u can say i got a 6.1 gig instead of a 6.4 gig... oh well

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P5A-B MoBo w/AMD K6-266@300 (100mhz FSB)
Matrox Milleniumm G200 AGP (oh, lets party)
Creative SB Awe32 (a classic, superb card)
Realtek 8029A NIC Card
64meg 100mhz SDRam
Ali V agp chipset (2x)
6.1 gig HD 5400 RPM UDMA 66
ALI 1543 IDE Controller (ATA 33)
Optiquest Q53 15" Monitor
Actima 36X CD-Rom
Windows 95B
ICQ UIN: 24730025

[xortam]

Storage vendors have been playing this marketing game for quite some time now. nehalmistry ... you have a 6.4 GB drive, if you want to compare it to how other drives are rated.

[nehalmistry]

ok then...

wow.. that makes a difference especially if u have a large HD... eg a 20gig is really 19.1gigs...

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P5A-B MoBo w/AMD K6-266@300 (100mhz FSB)
Matrox Milleniumm G200 AGP (oh, lets party)
Creative SB Awe32 (a classic, superb card)
Realtek 8029A NIC Card
64meg 100mhz SDRam
Ali V agp chipset (2x)
6.4 gig HD 5400 RPM UDMA 66
ALI 1543 IDE Controller (ATA 33)
Optiquest Q53 15" Monitor
Actima 36X CD-Rom
Windows 95B
ICQ UIN: 24730025

[cjolley]

Tell me about it!
I'm "missing" slightly more than the entire size of your HD
chuck

PS I think about 8.4 gigs! (see sig)

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