How many Gb with 1tb formatted?

Infernum · 25 Feb 2010 at 13:27

Having trouble deciding between 1.5tb and 1tb drive, I know 1.5tb is around 1.36 Tb
But after searching I could not find out about the 1tb drives. Could anyone tell me how much space I'd have with 1 tb formatted as ntfs or MFS+?

dannyjay · 25 Feb 2010 at 13:30

940GB or 960GB as far as I can remember.

El_MUERkO · 25 Feb 2010 at 14:03

It drives me nuts, I'd pay extra to have a drive the size it's supposed to be

littlescrimbler · 25 Feb 2010 at 14:09

closer to 930gb i thought.

PhillyDee · 25 Feb 2010 at 14:12

I get 931.1Gb on my Home Server 1Tb Hard Drive.

And it is exactly what is advertised.
1 terabyte (TB) equals 1000000000000bytes

El_MUERkO · 25 Feb 2010 at 14:19

PhillyDee said:
I get 931.1Gb on my Home Server 1Tb Hard Drive.

And it is exactly what is advertised.
1 terabyte (TB) equals 1000000000000bytes

only cause they changed it

Infernum · 25 Feb 2010 at 19:19

Cool, thanks for help. Will be able to try out the free shipping from OcUK now

Trifid · 25 Feb 2010 at 19:36

El_MUERkO said:
It drives me nuts, I'd pay extra to have a drive the size it's supposed to be

They are the size they are supposed to be. Windows and RAM use the incorrect terminology. 1 KiloByte is 1000 Bytes (10^3). 1 KibiByte (KiB's) is 1024 Bytes (2^10). Some Linux systems use the correct unit.

Hard drive manufacturers use the correct terminology and so a 1TB HDD is 1,000,000,000,000 Bytes. Once formatted into TebiBytes (TiB's) it is 931.322575GibiBytes (GiB's).

MagicBoy · 25 Feb 2010 at 19:38

My Hitachi 7K1000B came out at 931GB in proper GB. Mac OS X shows it as 1TB as it's retarded.

PhillyDee · 25 Feb 2010 at 19:41

OS X uses decimal. Windows uses binary. Apparently.

It makes more of a difference now than in MB hard drive days!

MagicBoy · 25 Feb 2010 at 19:57

PhillyDee said:
OS X uses decimal. Windows uses binary. Apparently.

It makes more of a difference now than in MB hard drive days!

OS X changed for 10.6. 10.5 and earlier are binary.

Cosimo · 25 Feb 2010 at 20:11

Windows 7 shows - 1,000,202,039,296 bytes (931 GB) - on a 1TB NTFS WD drive.

bledd · 25 Feb 2010 at 20:24

divide by 1024, divide by 1024, divide by 1024

times 1,000,000,000 = GB

b changed to B

Trifid · 25 Feb 2010 at 20:26

While we are at it, can we keep to big B's when talking about Bytes?

Sorry.

PhillyDee · 25 Feb 2010 at 20:28

You mean I have to Bite my tongue?

MagicBoy · 25 Feb 2010 at 20:32

Trifid said:
They are the size they are supposed to be. Windows and RAM use the incorrect terminology. 1 KiloByte is 1000 Bytes (10^3). 1 KibiByte (KiB's) is 1024 Bytes (2^10). Some Linux systems use the correct unit.

Hard drive manufacturers use the correct terminology and so a 1TB HDD is 1,000,000,000,000 Bytes. Once formatted into TebiBytes (TiB's) it is 931.322575GibiBytes (GiB's).

The IEC moved the goalposts in 1995. Since computers count in powers of two and I was using computers before they decided to move said goalposts I therefore disagree.

This is the only time you'll hear me say this: Windows is right, OS X is wrong.

Invictus · 25 Feb 2010 at 23:52

it all depends on the file system. you could get more space with a more efficient filesystem. for instance using different formatting sizes.

El_MUERkO · 26 Feb 2010 at 02:05

MagicBoy said:
The IEC moved the goalposts in 1995. Since computers count in powers of two and I was using computers before they decided to move said goalposts I therefore disagree.

This is the only time you'll hear me say this: Windows is right, OS X is wrong.

indeed, they changed it which is frankly pants cause it makes my drives messy