Matt London wrote:

> I still don't understand why the disk manufacturers don't 
> quote in "real
> numbers" tho. Plus - they quote the unformatted capacity usually too -
> which means you always get less anyway. But then again, that 
> depends on
> the fs you put on the disk.

Once one of them started to quote in real-world
units their stuff started to look bigger to today's
"untutored" consumers. Same argument for
formatted vs unformatted (although I thought
that most disks quote formatted capacity
these days since there is no real low-level
formatting allowed on most IDE disks and 
SCSI does not seem to need it either).

Antonio