Hi there friends. My new 30GB iPod says that it has 27.79 GBs available, and 28.4 MBs used. Is this normal? What is the 28.4? And am I smoking crack, or is that less than 30GB all together anyway? I was screwing around trying to copy songs through "My Computer", so I just want to make sure that I didn't screw something up. Thanx for helping a novice, any assistance is much appreciated.
No worries, you didn't screw anything up, mate. The iPod Software needs that extra 1.5 gigs of memory to store the firmware, games, etc. on the iPod, so this is absolutely normal. ;-)
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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