Storage Solutions Where is the missing HDD space?

[neoronin]

I recently picked up a 1TB WD Essential edition external HDD. First thing I noticed is that it has only 939 GB availability in the HDD. I mean come on, 100 GB hidden for what? The same thing is there in the seagate external 500GB HDD also. Don't know where 58 GB is gone.

For what purpose do these unutilized spaces in external HDD's are blocked for?

 

[zhopudey]

There should be a sticky about this...

Windows measures space using 1024, while hard disk manufactures use 1000. Hence, for windows, 1TB = 1024GB = 1,048,576MB = 1,073,741,824KB = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes , whereas you actually get 1 trillion bytes. Divide this by 1024 3 times and you get your 939GB.

Nothing wrong about it, thats just the way its done.

 

[neoronin]

There should be a sticky about this...

Windows measures space using 1024, while hard disk manufactures use 1000. Hence, for windows, 1TB = 1024GB = 1,048,576MB = 1,073,741,824KB = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes , whereas you actually get 1 trillion bytes. Divide this by 1024 3 times and you get your 939GB.
Nothing wrong about it, thats just the way its done.

Damn. This is a serious double standard.

 

[hunt3r]

Its been this way since forever. The HDD makers have been sued over it too. Really stupid policy

 

[vishalrao]

My epic, brilliant post in another similar recent thread: http://www.techenclave.com/storage-...l-capacity-wd-640gb-136913-2.html#post1155477

 

[aswinvs]

Its simple mathematically thing between the OS and the manufacturer

for an OS 1024 MBytes =1Gb( this is the standard)

For most of the HDD manufactures 1000 Bytes=1GB

SO there is a 24 MB diffrence in every GB so if its a 100Gb HDD there will be 2400Mb missing almost 2GB