I'm sorry to be the ******* man but you're extremely ignorant. You need to learn how to form a sentence without lulz and bruh.
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Why is my 128gb saying 114gb capacity?
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okay bruh.. lulz
I'm still a bit confused on how this storage **** works. Sorry but can you please explain it again.
Okay, what hasn't been mentioned.
Capacity: 114GB
Available: Something less. (Capacity minus your stuff)
So if we are just doing byte math to calculate storage.
128GB -> 119GB
Does iOS not tally against Capacity?
On the iPhone 5s, the compressed update was 1.97GB
It's possible the OS, uncompressed is 5GB. But no one has said for certain that the OS usage is calculated against "Capacity" or the raw 119GB storage.
Additionally some space it taken, just for overhead, referring to file system. That takes space as well. I just don't recall. The more space you have IE: 128GB, 256GB etc, the more overhead there is, so the more that seems to be missing.
It's possible the answer to 114GB Capacity, is "ALL OF THE ABOVE" But we don't know for certain.
Capacity: 114GB
Available: Something less. (Capacity minus your stuff)
So if we are just doing byte math to calculate storage.
128GB -> 119GB
Does iOS not tally against Capacity?
On the iPhone 5s, the compressed update was 1.97GB
It's possible the OS, uncompressed is 5GB. But no one has said for certain that the OS usage is calculated against "Capacity" or the raw 119GB storage.
Additionally some space it taken, just for overhead, referring to file system. That takes space as well. I just don't recall. The more space you have IE: 128GB, 256GB etc, the more overhead there is, so the more that seems to be missing.
It's possible the answer to 114GB Capacity, is "ALL OF THE ABOVE" But we don't know for certain.
I am concerned reading this thread that there are a number of information which are misleading.
Let's consider the fact:
1) The OS overhead is a fixed space consumed across 16, 64 and 128GB
2) The larger the storage is, the higher overhead consumed for partition information (e.g. File Allocation Table, EXT2, HFS, etc)
3) Available sizes
a. 16GB - 9 GB available (after overhead and OS without additional software)
b. 64GB ??
c. 128GB - 114 GB available (after overhead and OS without additional software).
In the 3a and 3b, we can conclude that the OS overhead is not more than 7 GB at most (16GB with 9 GB available), so the only explanation why 128GB has 109/110GB available (18-19GB used, hence there is around 9-10GB difference of space used compared to 16GB) would be the additional overhead in partition and perhaps swap/virtual memory.
There were some comparison with SSD. This isn't relevant. There are two types of SSD, one with over-provisioning (128GB SSD advertised as 120GB, with 8GB for over provisioning i.e. spare to replace bad blocks), another SSD is without overprovisioning (128GB will be advertised as such). In either way, the formatted capacities will be less by a few gigs due to partition overhead. Over-provisioning is not applicable for iPhone.
Let's consider the fact:
1) The OS overhead is a fixed space consumed across 16, 64 and 128GB
2) The larger the storage is, the higher overhead consumed for partition information (e.g. File Allocation Table, EXT2, HFS, etc)
3) Available sizes
a. 16GB - 9 GB available (after overhead and OS without additional software)
b. 64GB ??
c. 128GB - 114 GB available (after overhead and OS without additional software).
In the 3a and 3b, we can conclude that the OS overhead is not more than 7 GB at most (16GB with 9 GB available), so the only explanation why 128GB has 109/110GB available (18-19GB used, hence there is around 9-10GB difference of space used compared to 16GB) would be the additional overhead in partition and perhaps swap/virtual memory.
There were some comparison with SSD. This isn't relevant. There are two types of SSD, one with over-provisioning (128GB SSD advertised as 120GB, with 8GB for over provisioning i.e. spare to replace bad blocks), another SSD is without overprovisioning (128GB will be advertised as such). In either way, the formatted capacities will be less by a few gigs due to partition overhead. Over-provisioning is not applicable for iPhone.
From your username to your comments, I'm thinking you are an internet time traveler from the year 2005.
I am tired of seeing this response to this question. I understand how the conversion works. iTunes shows drive size and capacity in GB (same unit of measure), not GiB or gb (lower case ). In my case, what is blocking 13.66 GB (10.67%) of capacity? That seems high for partition / os overhead. Any ways, just tired of seeing the GB to GiB conversion reasoning when it doesn't apply to the intent of the question. See screen shot.
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It does apply, its the conversion and it needs to be accounted for. You have what appears to you as 14gb used but if that was actually the case then 16gb iPhones would only have 2gb of usable space available......?
I thought this was settled near a year ago.
I am tired of people responding to 10 month old threads.
While I, in principle, agree, would you rather someone start more and more threads on the same topic that's already been discussed? Damned if you do; damned if you don't.
Yep, I agree. Some of the stuff is worth bringing up again but some is not.
No harm done to anyone as there are more crazy threads in these forums!
I completely understand if the user who bumped has a question that relates to the thread, but it is pointless if the bumping user is regurgitating information already present in the thread. Your response indicates you didn't notice that.
Now THAT, I will whole-heartedly agree with. Not much irks me more than members insisting that someone else just give them the answer, so they don't have to do the "work" of actually reading the thread. Or someone wants to throw in his/her .02 w/out reading and realizing nothing new is being contributed.
iTunes is showing the drive size in GiB, with a GB unit of measure like all computers do. The iPhone's capacity is 119.2 GiB. With all the overhead for the OS, 114 GiB remaining makes sense.