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How much used space is on your primary hard drive?

Less than 5GB
13 (6.3%)
Between 6-20GB
47 (22.8%)
Between 21-40GB
30 (14.6%)
Between 41-60GB
21 (10.2%)
Between 60-100GB
30 (14.6%)
Between 100-200GB
27 (13.1%)
Over 200GB
38 (18.4%)

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Re: September monthly poll
« Reply #30 on: September 05, 2009, 09:27:18 AM »
Quote from: 876543219 on September 05, 2009, 09:20:08 AM
18.6 and i haxe 4.43 left  why is that you get less gigibytes than what the product shows i also had an mp3 player that said 2 and was only 1.8
what do you mean only 15 percent i had my computer under 700 mb which is under 8 percent

Here's why:

 

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    Re: September monthly poll
    « Reply #31 on: September 05, 2009, 09:49:51 AM »
    i see what he ment now he said 80 i didn't think about that it was actually 76 and you can't have 77 gigibytes on a 76 gigibyte hardrive

    i originally thought he ment to say lets say you really have a hundred  gigibyte hardrive i thought he was saying you couldn't go under 15gb
     it's actually 7 percent under what the product sas
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    Re: September monthly poll
    « Reply #32 on: September 05, 2009, 10:15:12 AM »
    The 7% is not a constant if you do the math...a good approximation though.
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    Re: September monthly poll
    « Reply #33 on: September 05, 2009, 10:16:36 AM »
    it's because the computer measures a kilobyte as 1024 bytes, a megabyte as 1024 kilobytes, and so on, and the HD manufacturers sell them using standard metric (powers of 10) (so a KB is 1000 bytes, a MB is 1000 KB, etc.
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    Re: September monthly poll
    « Reply #34 on: September 05, 2009, 10:33:30 AM »
    I've got you all covered..    Out of a whopping   40 GB,    ~20 is free  ;D

    Although I do have 30 GB hard drive that I dedicate as a file server, but I can't keep it in my system until I add an extra fan, it runs too hot sitting right next to the other drive...

    Mark my words, when I get some extra cash I'm going to build a custom system with bigger drives and I will control the world  >>:
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      Re: September monthly poll
      « Reply #35 on: September 05, 2009, 10:56:21 AM »
      10gb   10.000.000.000       10gb   9.69      6.69 percemt
      20gb   20.000.000.000       20gb   18.6      6.75 percent
      30gb   30.000.000.000       30gb   27.94     6.68666666666666666666666666666667 percent to be exact
      100gb  100.000.000.000    100gb  93,13     6.87
      500gb  500.000.000.000    500gb  465,65    6.87
      100gb  1.000.000.000.000 1000gb 931.30    6.87 also     

      I did the math here are the exact numbers for different gigibytes didn't have  the time to do them all but most average out to be around 6.87
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      Re: September monthly poll
      « Reply #36 on: September 05, 2009, 10:56:59 AM »
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      also the file system eats some of the space up
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      Re: September monthly poll
      « Reply #37 on: September 05, 2009, 11:29:41 AM »
      Quote from: 876543219 on September 05, 2009, 10:56:21 AM
      10gb   10.000.000.000       10gb   9.69      6.69 percemt
      20gb   20.000.000.000       20gb   18.6      6.75 percent
      30gb   30.000.000.000       30gb   27.94     6.68666666666666666666666666666667 percent to be exact
      100gb  100.000.000.000    100gb  93,13     6.87
      500gb  500.000.000.000    500gb  465,65    6.87
      100gb  1.000.000.000.000 1000gb 931.30    6.87 also     

      I did the math here are the exact numbers for different gigibytes didn't have  the time to do them all but most average out to be 6.87


      It's not an arithmetic constant.

      What about- say- 400 Yottabytes?

       483,570,327,845,852,000,000,000,000 bytes according to a PC

       400,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes if there was a 400TB HD manufactured.

      approx. 20% difference.


      the reason for this difference has been explained. there simply is no "average" and like most "rules of thumb" woefully inaccurate.

      10GB according to a PC is 10*1024*1024*1024, or 10,737,418,240 bytes.

      However hard drives are sold differently- a 10GB drive will likely actually be 10,000,000,000 bytes.



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      6.68666666666666666666666666666667 percent to be exact

      No, to be exact would require infinite 6's.

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      Re: September monthly poll
      « Reply #38 on: September 05, 2009, 11:33:50 AM »
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      technically the computers are correct on the size and people just use 1000 because its easier
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      No, to be exact would require infinite 6's.
      no thats impossable
      there maybe billions or even trillions of 6's but not infinite
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      Re: September monthly poll
      « Reply #39 on: September 05, 2009, 11:39:31 AM »
      On my laptop, 36.29GB free of an 80GB drive.  Since the formatted capacity is actually about 74.5GB, used space is less than 40GB.  I believe my desktop computer would also fall in the 21 - 40 GB category, also an 80GB drive.
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      Re: September monthly poll
      « Reply #40 on: September 05, 2009, 11:43:17 AM »
      thats because whatever you calculated it on ran out of variable capicity
      also my 486 computer is 100/235MB
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      Re: September monthly poll
      « Reply #41 on: September 05, 2009, 11:50:34 AM »
      Quote from: 876543219 on September 05, 2009, 11:41:14 AM
      it's not infinite 6s there is a 7 after 30 6s

      yes. It is.

       try 2/3 in calculator.

       it gives me

      0.66666666666666666666666666666667

      but the real answer is .6 repeating.



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        Re: September monthly poll
        « Reply #42 on: September 05, 2009, 11:52:22 AM »
        your right i tried an online calculator and it said 7 only after 12 6s
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        Re: September monthly poll
        « Reply #43 on: September 05, 2009, 11:54:08 AM »
        the 7, is from rounding, since the calculator or whatever is being used can only have a certain number of significant digits.

        Now that we're all up to speed on arithmetic...  ;D
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        Re: September monthly poll
        « Reply #44 on: September 05, 2009, 12:48:07 PM »
        About 150 of my 750
        my computer apps teacher said that you would never use more then 100gb  :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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