iPod Actual Nano 1GB (formated) capacity?

My 1GB nano says 894MB in the "About" section.

Lets do the maths eh?

1,000,000,000 divided by 1024 = 976562.5 KiB
and again...

= 953.67431640625 MiB

953.7MiB - 894MiB = ~60MiB

So you lose about 60MiB to formatting, on-board applications and other stuff. That's more than a regular HDD would lose to formatting but a regular HDD doesn't have a built-in photo viewer, a world clock, stopwatch etc...

I have 179 songs (two fairly large podcasts included) and 249 photos and still have 149MiB left. Not too shabby.

Gee it's a gorgeous bit of kit too...

Ashapalan said:

well thank you chundles for answering in such detail.

I'll definatly be dropping by for one on monday.

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No worries, insomnia (it's 2:15am here) brings out my inner "detail overload" posts.

My 1gb nano says 912mb in the about section

MattyMac said:

My 1gb nano says 912mb in the about section

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Hmm, that's funny. I just did a full restore on mine and now it too says 912MiB.

Same number of photos, 188 songs (some different to before, a few bigger songs and an audiobook) an it's got 74.1MiB available.

I'd tend to believe the 912MiB figure meaning you lose only 42MiB to formatting etc. Sounds a bit closer to what a regular HDD would lose to formatting if it were only 1GiB in size.

OK, we agree, 1GB nano = 912MiB. Sounds good.