iPod Space

[Premgenius]

I know like all hard drive you dont get the full amount as written can someone please confirm how much space is there for music storage on the 30GB and 60GB ipod as my calculations are not coming out right?

[cyclingplatypus]

The 30GB one has 27.8GB of space (according to the iPod itself), in iTunes it comes out to 27.88GB (13.67GB used - 14.21GB free).

[goheels681]

The 60GB one is really about 55.87. If you want a close estimate of a hard drive's real space, take the advertised space and multiply it by 0.9313225.

[Premgenius]

  cyclingplatypus said:

The 30GB one has 27.8GB of space (according to the iPod itself), in iTunes it comes out to 27.88GB (13.67GB used - 14.21GB free).

  psgamer0921 said:

The 60GB one is really about 55.87. If you want a close estimate of a hard drive's real space, take the advertised space and multiply it by 0.9313225.

Thank you.

[Gelob]

  psgamer0921 said:

The 60GB one is really about 55.87. If you want a close estimate of a hard drive's real space, take the advertised space and multiply it by 0.9313225.

Is that only for GB? So if i wanted to know the real space on a 1TB drive i would need to convert TB>GB?

[goheels681]

I'd guess so, but I'm not sure if they market 1TB as 1000GB, so it may or may not work.

[Hell-In-A-Handbasket]

The diffrence in space is how FAT/Window's handles space, if format'd for MAC, the space would actually be teh size on the back of the iPod

[mikeS]

1GB = 1024MB on Windows so 30*1000/1024 = 29.29GB

[goheels681]

  Hell-In-A-Handbasket said:

The diffrence in space is how FAT/Window's handles space, if format'd for MAC, the space would actually be teh size on the back of the iPod

Nope, both operating systems address one gig as 1024mb, and all hardware creators address is as 1000mb

  mikeS said:

1GB = 1024MB on Windows so 30*1000/1024 = 29.29GB

Don't know where you got your numbers, but my 30gig, 5G iPod has about 27.8gb of space.

[cyclingplatypus]

  Hell-In-A-Handbasket said:

The diffrence in space is how FAT/Window's handles space, if format'd for MAC, the space would actually be teh size on the back of the iPod

My numbers are from a Mac formatted iPod... :huh:

[AJerman]

  cyclingplatypus said:

The 30GB one has 27.8GB of space (according to the iPod itself), in iTunes it comes out to 27.88GB (13.67GB used - 14.21GB free).

Haha, 1.5GB free of 27.8 GB

[cyclingplatypus]

  Betaz said:

Haha, 1.5GB free of 27.8 GB

Don't confuse the amount of media I have on my iPod with the amount of media that I have :D

[crazzy88ss]

  psgamer0921 said:

The 60GB one is really about 55.87. If you want a close estimate of a hard drive's real space, take the advertised space and multiply it by 0.9313225.

27.3g or so here, on a mac.

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If you want a close estimate of a hard drive's real space, take the advertised space and multiply it by 0.9313225.

how'd you come up w/ that? I noticed like all HDDs are off by about 10%, and WHY are they off by that much? It always ****es me off :(

[Vice]

  crazzy88ss said:

27.3g or so here, on a mac.

how'd you come up w/ that? I noticed like all HDDs are off by about 10%, and WHY are they off by that much? It always ****es me off :(

Because Hard Drive Manufacturers count a megabyte as 1000KB when it is in fact 1024KB.

[DomG]

Isn't it because they count a kilobyte as 1000 bytes, when it's actually 1024 bytes? Etc etc, all the way up.