Talk:Disk Overhead

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[edit] Necessary

I agree with the proposal. The article about Disk Overhead is a duplication about something discussed on the article about HDD. 189.11.190.115 (talk) 03:59, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

I also agree, as the title of this article is misleading. The discrepancy between advertised capacity and real capacity is wholly in the the difference between using 1000 or 1024 as the multiplier. Manufacturers use 1000 because it ends up making the drive sound bigger on paper. OS's use 1024 because it's right. "Disk Overhead", the amount of space on a drive taken by partitioning data and file system overhead, is negligible on HDs over 100MB,and the fact that it has it's own page in Wikipedia (which supports the notion that it is the reason your disk looks smaller than the manufacturer said it would) only serves to promote ignorance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.27.1.3 (talk) 22:29, 16 May 2008 (UTC)