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iMac HD 460GB, suppose to be 500GB.

joby866

joby866

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Hey all,

I bought an iMac (24", 3.06GHz) about 3/4 days ago now. And I just noticed, that my Hard Drive isn't what it's suppose to be. The HDD I'm suppose to have is a 500GB HDD. When Infact I have a 460GB HDD? What's all that about?
 
joby866 said:
Hey all,

I bought an iMac (24", 3.06GHz) about 3/4 days ago now. And I just noticed, that my Hard Drive isn't what it's suppose to be. The HDD I'm suppose to have is a 500GB HDD. When Infact I have a 460GB HDD? What's all that about?
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There's nothing wrong, the figures are right.

500 actual gigabytes equal roughly 465 "binary" gigabytes. You got all the space you paid for.
 
Hard Drive Manfacturers label 500GB as meaning 500,000,000,000 bytes.

But to a computer (which counts in binary), 500,000,000,000 bytes = 5,000,000,000 / (1024^3) = approx 465 Gigabytes

You haven't lost anything, it's just two different labeling systems.
 
awesome ive been wondering what the hell that was all about. still... they should say its a 460 gb hard drive or make it 580gb so it actually is 500gb.
 
andrewline6 said:
awesome ive been wondering what the hell that was all about. still... they should say its a 460 gb hard drive or make it 580gb so it actually is 500gb.
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They should, but they won't, because it'll cost them more money. They are technically right, though; Disk Utility says my 320GB drive does have about 320,000,000,000 bytes of space on it.
 
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