My 250gb drive shows up as 232gb and my 320gb drive shows up as 298gb.
Is there a way to get them to display correctly?
2007-11-19 14:07:20 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
250 and 320 are nominal drive sizes.
Remember that there are two issues,
1) GigaBytes versus GibiBytes
--- which just means 10^9 versus 2^30 (see link below)
and
2) Partition size -- when you format a hard drive, only some of the drive is used for storage. Other areas are used by the system and do not count towards raw storage.
2007-11-19 14:21:50 · answer #1 · answered by Red Dog 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was recently a lawsuit against drive makers because they have advertised for years using decimal Gigs (1000x1000x1000) while every operating systems uses binary Gigs (1024x1024x1024) This makes all their drives look bigger and all end in 0, but in fact the drive space available is identical. They lost and you may be getting a notice (if you bought the drive separately) and perhaps a small refund. Otherwise, you just have to live with it. Imagine you had to get the space in 20 Mb drives at $600 a drive and live in the lap of cheap drive space.
2007-11-19 22:42:00 · answer #2 · answered by Mike1942f 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Operating system takes up some space on your disc drive making it smaller and the manufacture only give u 1000mb per gig instead of 1024 per gig makes a big differance.
2007-11-20 12:18:58 · answer #3 · answered by battlefield96 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One Gb is actually 1024 Mb. The marketers for the HD companies list a GB as 1000 Mb. Your PC is showing the size of your drives as they actually are..
2007-11-19 22:14:05 · answer #4 · answered by kilosq2 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they are correct
2007-11-19 22:12:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋