how bug is your ssd?

Cupra · 16 May 2011 at 22:47

Im not asking how big is the drive as in writtern ont he box size more of a how big is it in the real world

i have an ocz 120gb ssd
yet i only get 111gb

is everyone elses the same?

ewarwoowar · 16 May 2011 at 22:49

I have a Corsair Force Series 160gb and it says it has 167gb.

LiamJ · 16 May 2011 at 22:50

My crucial I get about 118Gb. It's to do with the manufacturer measuring the space in a different way to the PC.

Scon · 16 May 2011 at 22:51

60/55.7

VaderDSL · 16 May 2011 at 22:54

I read a post on here earlier on that the drive reserves space for its own needs, i.e. to keep the drive functioning smoothly

this post/link explains it well

shine · 16 May 2011 at 23:00

OSX reports my 256GB M4 as 255.72GB. I can live that.

cmndr_andi · 16 May 2011 at 23:06

Just looked at my "Vertex 2E 120GB" SSD, windows reports it as 111.69GiB or 119.93GB.

This is what the OS can see at least, but the drive itself has ~128GB NAND total onboard, which around 8GB is used for overprovisioning (as pointed out by VaderDSL).

nervex · 16 May 2011 at 23:38

OCZ Apex 120 / Win7 shows 117.18

Zarf · 17 May 2011 at 00:26

2xIntel 80GB's, ~74.5GB usable on each, I have the raid0 array limited at 148GB.
Perfect size really, no problem managing the space, I uninstall (cut+paste) game directorys to my NAS once i'm done, usually have around 100-120GB used. Get around 100MB/s over my gigabit network so if I ever want to play again it only takes a couple of minutes to copy back and I can pick up where i left off.

Surveyor · 17 May 2011 at 04:22

Cupra said:
Im not asking how big is the drive as in writtern ont he box size more of a how big is it in the real world

i have an ocz 120gb ssd
yet i only get 111gb

is everyone elses the same?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte

Sin_Chase · 17 May 2011 at 09:15

120GB SSD with 111GB usable. It's over-provisioned.

DragonQ · 17 May 2011 at 10:42

Sin_Chase said:
120GB SSD with 111GB usable. It's over-provisioned.

No, 120 GB = 111 GiB. Nothing to do with overprovisioning.

If you're referring to a "120 GB Vertex 2(E)" then the overprovisioning comes from the fact there's actually 128 GB of NAND and only 120 GB (111 GiB) is used.

It does sometimes astound me how few people seem to know about the difference between kB/MB/GB/TB and KiB/MiB/GiB/TiB in a forum dedicated to HDDs, especially when the discrepancy has existed for 20+ years.

SeeKified · 17 May 2011 at 12:29

DragonQ said:
No, 120 GB = 111 GiB. Nothing to do with overprovisioning.

If you're referring to a "120 GB Vertex 2(E)" then the overprovisioning comes from the fact there's actually 128 GB of NAND and only 120 GB (111 GiB) is used.

It does sometimes astound me how few people seem to know about the difference between kB/MB/GB/TB and KiB/MiB/GiB/TiB in a forum dedicated to HDDs, especially when the discrepancy has existed for 20+ years.

I'd love to know why the software designers and the drive manufacturers can't get their act together and get the right numbers in the right places. Like you say, the issue's been there for long enough.

InfiniteNoise · 17 May 2011 at 12:57

60GB OCZ Vertex 2, 55GB of usable space.

Cupra · 17 May 2011 at 13:34

.... delete