On 13 Oct 2004, at 22:14, Jorge Parra wrote:
Hi all
I wonder if I am definitely supposed to expect only 4,4 Gigs of actual available empty room in DVD-R blank discs which are advertised as having 4,7 Gigs. I may have missed this "detail" but I can't recall any discussion about this before.
There are two definitions of the term gigabyte or megabyte or kilobyte for that matter.
When you buy something, they pretend a gigabyte is 1,000,000,000 bytes (1 billion bytes), Your computer knows it is actually 2 to the 30th power, or 1,073,741,824 bytes. (1 billion, 73 and a bit million) Basically each gig is 74 megabytes bigger than vendors would like you to believe. So on a DVD you would expect to be about 350 megabytes short of what you think you should be getting.
Matthew Ward
=============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
