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Originally Posted by MadMorgan
Wouldn't it be 134.2? Isn't the actual calc ((2^28)*512)/1024
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Why the /1024?
2^28 sectors * 512 bytes/sector = 137,438,953,472 bytes = 137GB (gigabytes)
137,438,953,472 / 1024 = 134,217,728 KiB (kibibytes)
134,217,728 / 1024 = 131,072 MiB (mibibytes)
131,072 / 1024 = 128 GiB (gibibytes)
Hard Disk Drives are sold in GB not GiB sizes.
Windows XP reports disk sizes in GiB despite labeling them GB hence my PC has a 160GB drive and Windows reports it as 149.01GB.