if this is a 500GB HDD, then how come i cant get all 500GB out of it?

[Cheese]

does anyone know how to get the max 500 from it?

 

[brian]

yep. they say a GB is 1000 MB but it is really 1024 MB so if you do the math... it is about 465 i believe so spot on

so 500*1000*1000*1000=500000000000
500000000000/1024/1024/1024=465

 

[oscaryu1]

does anyone know how to get the max 500 from it?

I think you need to enable some support or something....

 

[littleblackxj]

No, what brianmay said was correct. Your computer measures gb as 1024mb, mb as 1024 kb, etc. but the labels measure gb as 1000mb, mb as 1000kb, etc.

 

[The_Other_One]

Hey, that's how I'd display/calculate it

Anyway, read the fine print :-/

One gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment and formatting.

In other words, a bunch of BS to sell you less for more.

 

[brian]

that is b/c i stole it from you

 

[nyhk]

In other words, a bunch of BS to sell you less for more.

Giga means 10^9, so not all BS

 

[Cheese]

but on my old one i had more than just this!

 

[computermaineack]

but on my old one i had more than just this!

You couldn't have had...a 500gb drive will always read as 465gb...my 500gb RAID 0 array reads as 465gb as well, because harddrive companies are cheap bastards looking to rip off consumers every chance they get.

 

[Short Ram Air]

I dunno, I had two 120GB drives, one was 112GB and the other was 116...

 

[johnb35]

Well. back in the days I remember getting hard drives and opening the box and there would be a paper saying that this drive was actually bigger than was stated. And I believe they were all Western Digital drives. Usually got like 3-4 more gigabytes then was stated.

 

[thedarksun]

yep. they say a GB is 1000 MB but it is really 1024 MB so if you do the math... it is about 465 i believe so spot on

so 500*1000*1000*1000=500000000000
500000000000/1024/1024/1024=465

true and the % gone ends up to be about 7% of your drive.

 

[jacklin]

yep. they say a GB is 1000 MB but it is really 1024 MB so if you do the math... it is about 465 i believe so spot on

so 500*1000*1000*1000=500000000000
500000000000/1024/1024/1024=465

This gentle man here is correct. Hard drive maker and windows system use different way to calculate the hard drives. You'll always get a 500 GB hard drive shown as 465GB. So it's normal. Take it easy.