has any 1 ever noticed that there hdd never says the true size ? I.E. 200 gb shows 137 gb
why is this ?
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Posted 15 August 2006 - 04:29 AM
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Posted 15 August 2006 - 06:19 AM
simon, on Aug 14 2006, 09:29 PM, said:
has any 1 ever noticed that there hdd never says the true size ? I.E. 200 gb shows 137 gb
why is this ?
why is this ?
the OS of choice and formatting, etc...
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Posted 15 August 2006 - 06:23 AM
simon, on Aug 14 2006, 11:29 PM, said:
has any 1 ever noticed that there hdd never says the true size ? I.E. 200 gb shows 137 gb
why is this ?
why is this ?
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Posted 15 August 2006 - 07:44 AM
has to do with the manufacturers giving 1000MB the name GB, while your systems thinks 1024MB is 1G
Also, partitioning will take up 7 or 8 MB
Also, partitioning will take up 7 or 8 MB
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Posted 15 August 2006 - 02:45 PM
i have a 100gig that actually has 91.1 and then the great people at hp (sarcasm) had to include the recovery partition o im down to 82.5gb. i have wondered why though. find it aggrevating that we pay for 100 or 300gb and dont get what we paid for.
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Posted 15 August 2006 - 04:24 PM
Its the same with memory cards. I have an external card reader but windows never sees the true size of any card inserted.
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Posted 15 August 2006 - 08:47 PM
i thought it had something to do with the filesystem and compression of the drive.
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Posted 26 September 2006 - 03:08 AM
it's kind of like death and taxes. :smoke:
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Posted 26 September 2006 - 04:39 AM
bluerip, on Sep 25 2006, 08:08 PM, said:
it's kind of like death and taxes. :smoke:
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Posted 26 September 2006 - 11:35 AM
I think the buffer is part of the overall size too. So 200gig with 16meg buffer would be 184. Could be wrong though.
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Posted 26 September 2006 - 11:53 AM
I think the question is that the manufacturer always rounds the size up ...
But 200 gigs - 16 megs = 199,984 *
The buffer is 16 megs, not gigs.
(*considering 1000 mb = 1 gig, what is actually wrong anyway)
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So 200gig with 16meg buffer would be 184. Could be wrong though
But 200 gigs - 16 megs = 199,984 *
The buffer is 16 megs, not gigs.
(*considering 1000 mb = 1 gig, what is actually wrong anyway)
Edited by vrosa x64, 26 September 2006 - 11:56 AM.
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Posted 26 September 2006 - 01:52 PM
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