In a time where hard drive manufactures are boasting about who has the biggest drive they still refuse to give me my 2% back.
I can hear some of you thinkin wft !! what 2% ??
I think it may have came up before but i am just reminding those who forgot.
The 2% to which i refer for those of you who dont know was lost when HDD manufacturers were at war and areal density was a seemingly insurmountable barrier to bigger HDD,when a 6Gb HDD had to be partioned if you wanted to get the whole 6Gb used (according to which os you had partitions were either 500 Mb or 2Gb max).
Up to now ppl are still wondering what 2%.
HDD makers and OEM's got together and decided for the sake of their bottom line that 1Mbyte was not 1024 Kb but 1000 Kb,(the ppl who sold this concept should be given $1,000,000 where $1 is not 100c but $1 = 80c) but any way if you do the math 24/1024 = 0.0234 approx 2%.
Now this concept was great at the time cuz if you talked about 100Gb you were talkin tape drives, 2% of 10 Gb was a laughable figure but in todays market of 200,300 and 400 Gb HDD's the little 2% adds up.On a "200 Gb" HDD you really get 195.3125 Gb thats 4 .6875 Gb short(my whole w!nd0ws partition),and we know HDD's are not going to stay at 400Gb(-9.375Gb).i think now would be a good time to get my 2% back dont you?
