Ipod Nano actual HD capacity

Hi everyone,
I just got a 16GB iPod Nano yesterday. When I first hooked it up it showed the capacity was somewhere very close to, or exactly 16GB...I can't remember the exact amount. Last night due to my messing some things up, I did a restore using iTunes. After this it shows that the hard drive capacity is 15.04 GB. Can someone explain why it would change? I wouldn't have been surprised if it started out showing this capacity when I first got it, but I don't like that it changed.
Thanks,
Infowarrior.45

When I first hooked it up it showed the capacity was somewhere very close to, or exactly 16GB
Not really.
It was very close to ~15GB because this is all the memory there is, even with nothing on it such as the OS.
16GB = 17,179,869,184 bytes, not 16,000,000,000 bytes. Go backwards and 16 billion bytes cannot be 16GB.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1867
"One more thing about iPod disk size
In iPod's About menu, the hard disk size is reported as slightly less than the technical specifications for the iPod. The same is true if you connect iPod to your computer in disk mode to look at the info or properties window for the disk.
Why the difference? Most hard disk manufacturers measure disk size this way: 1 MB = 1 million bytes (1000 * 1000). A 4 GB disk, therefore, is one that holds 4 billion bytes. Computers, including Windows computers, Macintosh computers and iPod, measure disk size this way: 1 MB = 1 048 576 bytes (1024 * 1024). The difference in these two calculations is what causes the drive to appear as 3.7 GB on a computer, but actually be a 4 billion byte disk."

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