iPod storage capacity Sep20 '04
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# (2 of 3): Matthom
2 days, 10 hours after the fact. (Wed 22 Sep 2004, 6:26 PM CST)
It really pisses me off! My iPod is significantly less potent - without those 2 Gigs. Not to mention it seems like it "rounds down" the available storage.
I just realized that manufacturers or companies could actually LIE about the amount of storage available, just to get consumers to go out and but the bigger model - AFTER they purchased the smaller one.
# (3 of 3): Duncan
3 years, 12 months after the fact. (Thu 18 Sep 2008, 12:30 PM CST)
The reason that you have less available storage space on your device than claimed is that you have to format a hard drive before you put data on to it. This is basically the "framework" that the drive needs to put the data into so it knows where it is and where to retreive it from. A bit like the gaps between tracks on a record, it indicates where the start of the music data is. All HDD have to do this.
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Apple charges too much for extra storage on the iPod. And, with storage, what you see is NOT always what you get.
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# (1 of 3): Amanda » amandaharasti.com
59 minutes after the fact. (Mon 20 Sep 2004, 9:04 AM CST)
No kidding. I just bought a spanking new laptop less than a week ago, which claims to have a 60GB hard drive. Ha! That storage is actually split between 2 hard drives, one with the recovery info on it, and a mere 14GB leftover which leaves the other hard drive with a wimpy 40GB.(Where is the other 6GB, I have no idea) I totally should have gone for the 80GB. Thank god for external drives!