Why does Mac OS X shows a 250GB drive as 249.42, while Windows 7 shows it as 232GB?
ventuss macrumors 6502 Original poster Oct 9, 2011 365 10 Mar 16, 2014 #1 Why does Mac OS X shows a 250GB drive as 249.42, while Windows 7 shows it as 232GB?
U ufkdo macrumors 6502 Oct 30, 2010 344 3 Turkey Mar 16, 2014 #2 ventuss said: Why does Mac OS X shows a 250GB drive as 249.42, while Windows 7 shows it as 232GB? Click to expand... Because OS X uses decimal system whereas windows uses binary system to calculate the capacity. Comment
ventuss said: Why does Mac OS X shows a 250GB drive as 249.42, while Windows 7 shows it as 232GB? Click to expand... Because OS X uses decimal system whereas windows uses binary system to calculate the capacity.
ventuss macrumors 6502 Original poster Oct 9, 2011 365 10 Mar 16, 2014 #3 ufkdo said: Because OS X uses decimal system whereas windows uses binary system to calculate the capacity. Click to expand... In that case every file in OS X gets bigger, interesting... Comment
ufkdo said: Because OS X uses decimal system whereas windows uses binary system to calculate the capacity. Click to expand... In that case every file in OS X gets bigger, interesting...
U ufkdo macrumors 6502 Oct 30, 2010 344 3 Turkey Mar 16, 2014 #4 ventuss said: In that case every file in OS X gets bigger, interesting... Click to expand... They are not actually getting bigger. It is just how OS calculates the values. Just because it shows more GBs does not mean it actually has more bits. For further info, you can refer here: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2419?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US Comment
ventuss said: In that case every file in OS X gets bigger, interesting... Click to expand... They are not actually getting bigger. It is just how OS calculates the values. Just because it shows more GBs does not mean it actually has more bits. For further info, you can refer here: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2419?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US