Just received the latest Mac Mini with 320gb hard drive option. When I check "About this Mac", it shows a max capacity of 298.09gb. I feel ripped for 22gb. Anyone know what gives?
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Mac Mini hard drive real capacity?
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bobfitz14
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there are plenty of threads about this sort of thing, and it seems that the OS takes up a significant amount of space, and the fact that it comes in so many languages. i've often heard MR users to do a clean install of OS X, though i don't know how because i don't own my own Mac sadly!
oh and there's always the dumb calculations from megabytes to gigabytes and what not.
oh and there's always the dumb calculations from megabytes to gigabytes and what not.
Ah yes, of course, I recall this now. This can be confusing for the casual or non-technical user/purchaser. I agree, better terminology that describes this situation would be helpful. Thanks.
I've personally done calculations with every HD I have connected to a Mac and formatted as HFS and have discovered that HFS formats the available space to approximately 7% less than the advertised amount.
For example:
500GB becomes 465.4GB
1TB becomes 931.2GB
40GB becomes 37.1GB
For example:
500GB becomes 465.4GB
1TB becomes 931.2GB
40GB becomes 37.1GB