Papa's finally getting a brand new baby!

Shes on her little way to my doorsteps as I type this message...My dear sweet 500GB, 7200.10 RPM, 16MB cache, barracuda...ahhh just a momentous feeling!(they are having a special on TigerDirect 500GB HDD for $119 or so i was thinking about getting 2 but im broke so that was a big NO!) Yeah my Presario is gonna be kicking some ass w/ its new baby and im giving it 1 to 2Gb of RAM, and later on a graphics card w/ nice DVI 22' LCD.(I know i have nothing to brag about but i always get excited with i get new electronics!) But first, I had a thought...I came to realize that SATA HDD's and also EIDE HDD's dont really have the GB that they claim to have. Is their a driver that can optimize the full capacity of a HDD?

Nope. Hard drive makers say a GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes... It is actually 2^30 which equals 1,073,741,824.

That's why you don't get the difference.

That seriously sucks..but thats reality so hey! Im still freaking amped! 1TB is looking mighty tempting right now....

imagine three years from now 50TB Drives!

when i have 1 tb of music i will be complete! btw tigerdirect= teh shiz nizzle wizzle dizzle. thats where my pc's from

... and then there are those that say that 1GB = 10^9 B because Giga is an SI prefix for 10^9, and that you should use GiB [gibibyte] if you mean 2^30. Software has always used 2^30 because it makes more sense in software, hardware manufacturers use 10^9 because it's less.

Yeah, I'll never use GiB or MiB.