What is the actual formatted capacity of the iPod mini? For example, my 40Gb comes out to 37.7 Gb. I am considering purchasing a mini for my more rigorous workouts, but I want to know how much it will actually hold.
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DaBuzz said:What is the actual formatted capacity of the iPod mini? For example, my 40Gb comes out to 37.7 Gb. I am considering purchasing a mini for my more rigorous workouts, but I want to know how much it will actually hold.
Thanks.
kingjr3 said:Like I have mentioned in other threads - Most of today's storage devices are marketed under the misnomer that 1GB = 1 billion bytes.
So the actually capacity of the ipods are as follows
4GB - 3.7252903 GB
5GB - 4.65661287 GB
10GB - 9.31322575 GB
15GB - 13.9698386 GB
20GB - 18.6264515 GB
30GB - 27.9396772 GB
40GB - 37.252903 GB
This is true of today hard drives as well. A rough formula is to take 93% of the advertised capacity to get the REAL capacity.