18.53 gig ipod??

i have a twenty gig i pod but all my music was erased and i restored it to factory settings. when i plug it to itunes it says i have 18.53 gigs free !!! Is that normal. is my hard drive messed up? shouldnt it have 20 gigs free if it is an empty ipod??? let me know

All hard drives never have the full advertised storage space, and as a general rule it's around 7% less than stated.
It's because hard drive manufacturers calculate hard drive space different than computers actually read it.
For a full technical explanation, see these.
iPod: About the hard disk size.
Hard disk: Is it missing space?

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