I can only use 700gb on a 750gb drive?

[ferret face]

Hi guys - Is it correct that I can only use 700gb on a 750 gb drive?

Thanks

Ferret

 

[bledd]

750

/1024 / 1024 / 1024
x 1000000000


=698gb

 

[ferret face]

wow cheers Bledd , I thought I'd been gipped out of 50gb

 

[bledd]

it's just the way hd manufacturers 'measure' the drive size, for them 1gb = 1000mb, for us it's 1024


there are correct ways of writing them, like GiB and Gb etc

i don't bother with the formalities of it though

i just think gb=1024

 

[reflux]

Doesn't formatting take some space too?

 

[bledd]

very little

 

[Alexrose1uk]

it's just the way hd manufacturers 'measure' the drive size, for them 1gb = 1000mb, for us it's 1024


there are correct ways of writing them, like GiB and Gb etc

i don't bother with the formalities of it though

i just think gb=1024

pfft, it was only recently when one of the bloody busybody standards agencies decided to make it that way; they should have changed it for the companies not the users and people who'd been calling it 1024 for years!

 

[Phil2008]

Doesn't formatting take some space too?

67mb I think is used up after I format my 200gb drive

 

[Trifid]

pfft, it was only recently when one of the bloody busybody standards agencies decided to make it that way; they should have changed it for the companies not the users and people who'd been calling it 1024 for years!

But then everywhere else a kilo equals 1000 but in computers it is 1024. Not very logical is it? Using 'iB is the best method to define 2^x.

 

[HarryPainful]

It very logical, its binary.

As logical as it gets.