I am trying to burn a data disc.
I have an eBook Folder that says it has 4.40 GB of data in it. I am trying to burn it onto a 4.7 DVD-R disc and it is saying at the bottom that it has a 4.47GB and there is only 4.28 available on the DVD, so it is trying to make it on 2 DVD's.
I have Easy Media Creator 9.
Any ideas?
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CaliBluesman
, Jan 10 2011 04:23 PM
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Posted 10 January 2011 - 05:14 PM
You can't fit it on one, so you may have to split it into 2 discs.
The standard so-called 4.7 GB disc actually holds about 4,700,000,000 bytes of data. Disc manufacturers call that 4.7 GB, but it isn't.
Given that a real GB is 1024 x 1024 x 1024 [1,073,471,824 bytes] your standard DVD only holds around 4.3 of what Windows calls GB.
Confusing, isn't it. That's the wonderful thing about standards, people pick whichever one they like at the moment.
There's a move afoot in the rest of the world to abandon the name Gigabyte [GB] and leave it to the storage manufacturers' 1,000,000,000 unit.
The 1024 x 1024 x 1024 computer 'Gig' is being called a Gibibyte [GiB] now, in most of the rest of the world, but not the USA for some reason unknown to me.
Go figure . . . [sigh]
The standard so-called 4.7 GB disc actually holds about 4,700,000,000 bytes of data. Disc manufacturers call that 4.7 GB, but it isn't.
Given that a real GB is 1024 x 1024 x 1024 [1,073,471,824 bytes] your standard DVD only holds around 4.3 of what Windows calls GB.
Confusing, isn't it. That's the wonderful thing about standards, people pick whichever one they like at the moment.
There's a move afoot in the rest of the world to abandon the name Gigabyte [GB] and leave it to the storage manufacturers' 1,000,000,000 unit.
The 1024 x 1024 x 1024 computer 'Gig' is being called a Gibibyte [GiB] now, in most of the rest of the world, but not the USA for some reason unknown to me.
Go figure . . . [sigh]
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Posted 11 January 2011 - 10:06 AM
Brendon, on 10 January 2011 - 05:14 PM, said:
You can't fit it on one, so you may have to split it into 2 discs.
The standard so-called 4.7 GB disc actually holds about 4,700,000,000 bytes of data. Disc manufacturers call that 4.7 GB, but it isn't.
Given that a real GB is 1024 x 1024 x 1024 [1,073,471,824 bytes] your standard DVD only holds around 4.3 of what Windows calls GB.
Confusing, isn't it. That's the wonderful thing about standards, people pick whichever one they like at the moment.
There's a move afoot in the rest of the world to abandon the name Gigabyte [GB] and leave it to the storage manufacturers' 1,000,000,000 unit.
The 1024 x 1024 x 1024 computer 'Gig' is being called a Gibibyte [GiB] now, in most of the rest of the world, but not the USA for some reason unknown to me.
Go figure . . . [sigh]
The standard so-called 4.7 GB disc actually holds about 4,700,000,000 bytes of data. Disc manufacturers call that 4.7 GB, but it isn't.
Given that a real GB is 1024 x 1024 x 1024 [1,073,471,824 bytes] your standard DVD only holds around 4.3 of what Windows calls GB.
Confusing, isn't it. That's the wonderful thing about standards, people pick whichever one they like at the moment.
There's a move afoot in the rest of the world to abandon the name Gigabyte [GB] and leave it to the storage manufacturers' 1,000,000,000 unit.
The 1024 x 1024 x 1024 computer 'Gig' is being called a Gibibyte [GiB] now, in most of the rest of the world, but not the USA for some reason unknown to me.
Go figure . . . [sigh]
Thank you DG. That explains it perfectly.
Edited by CaliBluesman, 11 January 2011 - 10:07 AM.
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