Formatted capacity of SSD?

miniyazz

miniyazz

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Hey guys, just hoping to clear up a little something - the formatted capacity of the Vertex series (30, 60, 120, 250GB) versus other SSDs (32, 64, 128, 256GB), including the Falcon.

It'd be great if everyone who owns a Vertex or similar SSD could post with the capacity of their drive in gibibytes (GB, as reported in My Computer-->Drive properties), along with the drive model.

Let the comparison begin..
 
They should all be about the same, just OCZ name their drives so as to make it easier for noobs that don't know how a disc is formatted.

My 64gb Falcon is seen by Windows as 59.9gb.
 
That is as I thought, I'm basically seeking to provide proof of that for tdream! Thanks for the response. :)
 
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Where as most manufaturers will quote the total volume size it appears that OCZ are quoting the total USABLE size after format :eek:
Good for them I say, nothing more anoying than buying a 1TB drive and relising you've lost 100Gb to the evil format monster.
 
Venares said:
Where as most manufaturers will quote the total volume size it appears that OCZ are quoting the total USABLE size after format :eek:
Good for them I say, nothing more anoying than buying a 1TB drive and relising you've lost 100Gb to the evil format monster.
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Indeed, well done to OCZ if that's the case.

You haven't lost anywhere near that much due to formatting though - you've never had the 93GB difference between a storage manufacturer's terabyte and a real terabyte, because they use decimal to make the numbers sound bigger and get away with it.

And please nobody give me that gibibyte rubbish - they 'invented' that after the fact purely because they wanted to defend their misleading position. You can't have a byte without binary, so to deny a kilobyte is 1024 bytes purely for profit is indefensible in my book. After all, how often do you see RAM sold in misleading quantities?
 
Hehe the evil format monster ;)

Cheers for all the replies, I think that clears up any disagreement :)

I hope other hard drive manufacturers do follow OCZ's lead in more correct nomenclature; unfortunately I feel it's unlikely to happen..
 
explicit4u said:
OCZ have forced the drive to be formatted to 60,120 etc. its to leave an overhead so your SSD stays in tip top shape.
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?? you mean the same thing as other SSDs have? Since different manufacturer drives have the same capacity and therefore presumably the same overhead.
 
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