Ipod classic 160gb ..... only 148gb avilable ????????

[admin_exported]

why is it that there is only 148gb of space on my (new !!) Ipod classic? can anyone explain ?

 

[Frank Harvey]

It uses your purchased storage space for it's own programs and usage. Bit of a con really.

 

[idc]

My Classic 80gb was full at 72gb. So double that and you appear to be getting 4 more gbs. It is the same with any hard drive. They claim the whole size, even though some of it is used by the device itself. My new 320gb laptop has 288gb of useable space.

 

[Anonymous]

i belyeve in this country the correct expression is ..... EDITED BY MODS for inappropriate expression

 

[carter]

any hard drive devicice is like this 1gb is like 1.24bytes, think it works out to about 10%.i.e 1tb is realy 1100gig

 

[Andrew Everard]

nodnarb4444:any hard drive devicice is like this 1gb is like 1.24bytes

It's like 1024 Megabytes, actually, which is like 1,073,741,284 bytes. Hence the fact that drives usually have about 7% less capacity than you'd expect them to.

 

[margetti]

Explanation here

 

[Anonymous]

It's ok guys I get it now just relax

 

[Anonymous]

sex:It's ok guys I get it now just relax

Well I for one can't relax!

Joking aside, there is some confusion around the issue of the meanings of words such as kilobyte. Whilst it's generally accepted that a kilobyte is 1024 bytes, the internationally agreed system is that kilo means a thousand which as leaves things being a little ambiguous. So some ten years ago a system of Binary Prefixes was agreed on which should have cleared this up, meaning:

Kilobyte (KB) becomes Kibibyte (KiB)

Megabyte (MB) becomes Mebibyte (MiB)

Gigabyte (GB) becomes Gibibyte (GiB)

It's quite simple so a can't see any decent reason for the apparent reluctance to adopt it. Rant over...

...maybe now I can relax!

 

[Andrew Everard]

It's simple: 'kilo-', etc., means something, whereas 'maybebytes' is just wibble...

 

[RodhasGibson]

Andrew Everard:It's simple: 'kilo-', etc., means something, whereas 'maybebytes' is just wibble...
Just turned my back for two seconds and my 17 month old grandaughter wibbled on the bathroom floor,damn it,

 

[Andrew Everard]

 

[Anonymous]

When I took some time out of my morning to share what I thought was an interesting piece of information, mockery wasn't what I was expecting. How far would chemists or physicists get if kilo sometimes meant 1000 and sometimes 1024? The kibibyte is just an attempt to clear up the ambiguity around the use of decimal prefixes in an industry where everything is based around the binary system.

Oh yes and wibble? I have only one further thing to say... hatstand.