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Re: The Great Capacity Swindle
« on: May 01, 2008, 12:03:19 AM »
From wdc.com:

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One gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes.
One terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes.
Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment.


This is nothing new.
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Re: The Great Capacity Swindle
« Reply #1 on: May 01, 2008, 12:30:49 AM »
Right, with OFS you only had 488 bytes usable per block, resulting in 837k capacity for a DD floppy.
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