Why does a 120GB HD only have a 111GB capacity after formatting. My format for this Western Digital internal drive ATA-100 is Mac OS extended, so what's the other 9GB's doing? Also, does indexing really help and how often should I do it?
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Hardrive capacity after formatting?
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Simple dynamics of HDDs, you've gotta think overheads and advertising blunders 🙂
Advertised as 120gig, when 1 gig = 1000, actually 1 gig = 1024, so theres a loss there. Also filesystems have overheads for allocation tables, cluster information, and journals (HFS+).
I think thats how it goes, correct me if im wrong.
Advertised as 120gig, when 1 gig = 1000, actually 1 gig = 1024, so theres a loss there. Also filesystems have overheads for allocation tables, cluster information, and journals (HFS+).
I think thats how it goes, correct me if im wrong.
