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How big is GB to Disk Director 11?

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I'm usure about this, but in general GB is meant 1000MB, GiB is equal to 1024MB (see Wikipedia). But I have seen some Examples in the Help Doc to DD11 where 60GB is defines as 61440MB (which is 1024MB per GB).

Acronis may correct me, I would say GB is counted to 1024MB in DD.

You are right, I guess. I have overseen this sentence in the Wiki-Page to Gigabyte (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte).

To address this ambiguity, the binary prefixes are standardized in the International System of Quantities, each binary prefix denoting an integer power of 1024. With these prefixes, a memory module that is labeled as having the size 1GB is designated as 1GiB (one gibibyte).

But when you ask hard disk manufacturers the state a GB as 1000MB (as 1000MB take less space than 1024MB and sounds "larger"). So it highly depends on what you want to show/sell. Most common should be 1GB = 1024MB, indeed.

I did get a reply from Acronis technical support via chat. 1 GB is indeed 1024 MB.

Thanks for reporting!