Thursday, November 27, 2014

Understanding Formatted Capacity versus Unformated Capacity

Have you wondered why Formatted Capacity is lesser than the Unformated Capacity of a Hard Disk. Do take a look at this article Formatted capacity confusion clarified

Storage hardware is using the base 10 system and software is using the base 2 system. So no storage is actually lost, it is just a question of how the information is represented.

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