how much gb your 500gb hdd read?

[UpskirtHayley]

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?

 

[Shane]

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

 

[3uL]

Same here...

 

[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.

 

[Fatback]

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]

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.