I upgraded my MBP ot teh 200GB 72oorpm HD and noticed last night that capacity was only 183.29GB. Anyone else? Thoughts. Comments.
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HD capacity issue.
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Yea thats pretty normal. With all Hard drives you will not get the entire capacity out of them. This is due to translation from bits to Gigabytes and the manufacture rounding them off to advertise to the consumer. Roughly 10% is missing from what is advertised. I dunno how it works but I know thats how it is..
-JoE
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That's an awful lot of "rounded-off space". Ah, nevermind I get it now thanks for the replies. I never really thought to look on other machines and when I got this one I did and was confused.
Again, Thank you all.
Again, Thank you all.
This is normal,have a read of this taken from another thread
Hard drive manufacturers are deceptive when they label their drives.
In the computer world, by any measurement, from any operating system, the correct way to calculate a GB as 1024^3 bytes (1024 is 2 to the 10th power, raised to the third power = 2^30) or 1,073,741,824 bytes.
Hard drive manufacturers, however, count a GB as 1000^3 (1000 to the third power) or 1,000,000,000. "Everybody does it" is their lame excuse. AFAIK, these may be the only humans in existence* who's mothers didn't ask them, "If your friends all walked off a cliff...?"
Anyway, if you do the math you'll see the difference is about 7% (1-(10^9/2^30)) which is almost exactly the difference you are seeing between your formatted size and what Western Digital printed on the size of the box.
Because the terms GB or gigabyte have been so hopelessly contorted by hard drive manufacturers, a standards body has come up with a new set of unambigious terms; Gibibyte abbreviated GiB are now being used instead. While a GB could be mean 10^9 or 2^30, a GiB always means exactly 2^30 or 1,073,741,824 bytes.
Hard drive manufacturers are deceptive when they label their drives.
In the computer world, by any measurement, from any operating system, the correct way to calculate a GB as 1024^3 bytes (1024 is 2 to the 10th power, raised to the third power = 2^30) or 1,073,741,824 bytes.
Hard drive manufacturers, however, count a GB as 1000^3 (1000 to the third power) or 1,000,000,000. "Everybody does it" is their lame excuse. AFAIK, these may be the only humans in existence* who's mothers didn't ask them, "If your friends all walked off a cliff...?"
Anyway, if you do the math you'll see the difference is about 7% (1-(10^9/2^30)) which is almost exactly the difference you are seeing between your formatted size and what Western Digital printed on the size of the box.
Because the terms GB or gigabyte have been so hopelessly contorted by hard drive manufacturers, a standards body has come up with a new set of unambigious terms; Gibibyte abbreviated GiB are now being used instead. While a GB could be mean 10^9 or 2^30, a GiB always means exactly 2^30 or 1,073,741,824 bytes.
No, it's the same amount of space, but measured 2 ways. Then on top of that, there is filesystem overhead which eats into that even further.
A KB (as advertized) is 10^3 whereas a GiB (as formatted) is 2^10. This is basically the difference between decimal and binary. So 1K is 1000 (as advertized, whereas 1K is 1024 (in binary). As you multiply the 1024, you end up with extra bytes that they sell you on, when in reality they aren't there.
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