how much gb your 500gb hdd read?

UpskirtHayley · 08-23-2009, 09:15 AM

how much gb your 500gb hdd read?

i know it wont be 500gb but just curious what others that have 500gb read.

mine reads 465gb. what about yours?

Nevakonaza · 08-23-2009, 09:30 AM

My external 500Gb reads the same...465Gb

3uL · 08-23-2009, 11:12 AM

Same here...

TFT · 08-23-2009, 11:39 AM

How manufacturers determine size and how a computer does is entirely different.
The manufacturer says 1Mb=1,000,000 bytes but to a computer a kilobyte= 1024 bytes and a megabyte=1,048,576 bytes

So for a computer to have a true 500 GB HD it would need to be 500x1024x1024x1024 = 536,870,912,00 bytes or 536 GB. Now you can see where the lost 36GB comes from.

Fatback · 08-23-2009, 11:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TFT

How manufacturers determine size and how a computer does is entirely different.
The manufacturer says 1Mb=1,000,000 bytes but to a computer a kilobyte= 1024 bytes and a megabyte=1,048,576 bytes

So for a computer to have a true 500 GB HD it would need to be 500x1024x1024x1024 = 536,870,912,00 bytes or 536 GB. Now you can see where the lost 36GB comes from.

So there really is no such thing as a 500GB

TFT · 08-23-2009, 11:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fatback

So there really is no such thing as a 500GB

You will not ever get the manufacturers quoted size as space, it never amounted to much in the early days but as the size of HD's grew the amount of "unusable space" grew as well. Simply because their terminology differed to a computers, plus it's a good selling point.

08-23-2009, 09:15 AM	#1 (permalink)
UpskirtHayley Gold Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 491	how much gb your 500gb hdd read? how much gb your 500gb hdd read? i know it wont be 500gb but just curious what others that have 500gb read. mine reads 465gb. what about yours?

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Nevakonaza VIP Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: UK Age: 21 Posts: 12,764	My external 500Gb reads the same...465Gb __________________ Desktop= Core 2 Quad Q6600 GO @ 3.4Ghz\|MSI P35 Neo-F\|[5GB OCZ Vista Gold Series -6400 oc.\|XFX HD 4890 XT 1GB GDDR5 \| X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity 7.1\|Coolermaster Dominator 690 Black (Modded)\|OCZ ModXStream Pro 600w Modular\| 250Gb & 500GB Sata2 Avermedia Volar HDTV Tuner\|Windows 7 Home X64 Asus X58 Laptop Intel M575 2Ghz \|120GB Sata HDD \|Crucial 2GB DDR2 800mhz \|15.4 inch Widescreen display]\|Intel GM965\|Vista Basic 32Bit\|DVD-RW

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TFT VIP Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Yorkshire, UK Posts: 3,665	How manufacturers determine size and how a computer does is entirely different. The manufacturer says 1Mb=1,000,000 bytes but to a computer a kilobyte= 1024 bytes and a megabyte=1,048,576 bytes So for a computer to have a true 500 GB HD it would need to be 500x1024x1024x1024 = 536,870,912,00 bytes or 536 GB. Now you can see where the lost 36GB comes from. __________________ Operator: Dave Operating System: XP Professional SP2 Processor: Intel E6750 Core Duo@3.20GHz Graphics: Nvidia 8500GT C: Drive 500GB D: Drive 200GB Memory: 2GB Monitor: 22" Widescreen ------------------------------------------------ Winner of Photo Tournament - Eerie, Dark, Creepy--etc.

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