i have recently received an iPod video 30GB for my birthday. It says there is 30GB but there is in fact only 27.8 GB. Is this normal or should i enquire to apple? I mean why is there over 2GB missing?!?!?!?! its riddiculous!
its ok now i found out why. according to the ipod wesite it is due to this:
Quote:In iPod's About menu (see note 1), the hard disk size is reported as slightly less than the technical specifications for the iPod. The same is true if you connect iPod to your computer in disk mode and from the File menu, choose Get Info (or Show Info for early versions of Mac OS X).
Why the difference? Most hard disk manufacturers measure disk size this way: 1 MB = 1 million bytes (1000 * 1000). A 5 GB hard disk, therefore, is one that holds 5 billion bytes. Computers, including the Macintosh and iPod, measure disk size this way: 1 MB = 1 048 576 bytes (1024 * 1024). The difference in these two calculations is what causes the drive to appear as 4.6 GB on a computer, but actually be a 5 billion byte hard disk.
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