Ipod classic 160 gigs, only 150 gigs free when arrived?

so my empty, new ipod classic 160
reads only 150 gigs free
now i know hard drives lose a few gigs in the translation
from retail packaging number, to actually available gigs
but 10 gigs?
what gives?

Hi Dr. Rek,
Actually, losing 11 GB with the 160 GB iPod Classic makes sense.
It's the same binary system and same percentage lost (about 8%, I believe) as all of the previous iPods were. It just seems worse when several GBs are lost in the conversion, simply due to the fact that this is a bigger hard drive we're dealing with.
Think of the 27.72 GB vs/ 30 GB discrepancy, for example; 92.4% (total storage space gain) is the same rate of as it's always been, just with a 160 GB model, it turns out as about 11 GB lost.
So, it's normal for your computer (and on your iPod, too) to read the GB space as about 149 GB instead of 160; if you calculate it, it's actually the same percentage, but not a similar amount that we might be used to, since the iPod's hard drives are just getting larger in storage space.
I hope that all makes sense!
-Kylene

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