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Old Oct 26th, 2005, 5:40 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by Nebula
...box says 160 gig, but idk if that holds water...
That's because the hard drive manufacturers count a gig as 1,000,000,000 Bytes instead of 1,073,741,824 Bytes (2^30). They cheat! :p
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