RhysAndrews
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Hi everybody.
For a while I've been sort of annoyed at how exact hard-drive sizes, whether you're buying a hard-drive on its own, or a HDD Mp3 Playeer or anything, are not what is advertised.
For instance, if you get a 250GB hard-drive the actual size is 232GB. This wasn't a problem years ago when 10GB hard-drives were standard. You'd miss out on about 100MB, nobody really cared. But now, you're missing out on 18GB and more. I mean, a 320GB Hard-drive is actually 298GB. That's 22GB which you could be using for hundreds of albums, tens of movies, or a few games.
I know that the calculations don't add up or whatever, and that there's some sort of explanation and that they just round the numbers. But regardless, companies are technically falsely advertising, aren't they? You are not getting what they are saying you'll get. While a 500GB is cheap and more than enough in most cases, my point still stands.
I'd just like to know what your opinions are on this.
Thanks
Rhys Andrews
For a while I've been sort of annoyed at how exact hard-drive sizes, whether you're buying a hard-drive on its own, or a HDD Mp3 Playeer or anything, are not what is advertised.
For instance, if you get a 250GB hard-drive the actual size is 232GB. This wasn't a problem years ago when 10GB hard-drives were standard. You'd miss out on about 100MB, nobody really cared. But now, you're missing out on 18GB and more. I mean, a 320GB Hard-drive is actually 298GB. That's 22GB which you could be using for hundreds of albums, tens of movies, or a few games.
I know that the calculations don't add up or whatever, and that there's some sort of explanation and that they just round the numbers. But regardless, companies are technically falsely advertising, aren't they? You are not getting what they are saying you'll get. While a 500GB is cheap and more than enough in most cases, my point still stands.
I'd just like to know what your opinions are on this.
Thanks
Rhys Andrews