Re: Calculating a Kilobyte

  • From: "E.J. Zufelt" <everett@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:33:24 -0400

Also,
On a harddrive there is used space, free space and wasted space. Since information is stored on a disk in sectors there are times that a small amount of information takes up a large amount of space.
For instance, a file that is 123 bytes in size may take up 4096 bytes because two files cannot be stored in the same sector.
The rule is that a single file can be stored in many sectors, but two files cannot be stored in any one sector. 

HTH,
Everett
----- Original Message ----- From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 5:17 PM
Subject: RE: Calculating a Kilobyte



You're being caught by the fact that harddrive manufacturers measure a
megabyte as 1,000,000 bytes, and your 188 gigabytes is being given to you in 
terms of a gigabyte being 1,024 megabytes which are 1,024 killabytes which
are 1,024 bytes.

Take care,
Sina

-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Hayden's Harness 
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Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 5:01 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Calculating a Kilobyte
I have an external USB Hard Drive. That says ihave 188GB free. The kilobytes 
are 202,016,489,472. Dividing this by 188GB, gives 1,074,555,795. Huh? I
thought 1MB was 1,024,576.

Angus MacKinnon
Infoforce Services
http://www.infoforce-services.com

"Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into
the light." - Helen Keller

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