Where is my 35gb?

[gaurav_indian]

I have bought Western Digital 500 gb external hdd yesterday.But its showing only 465 gb.I know it takes some space.But 35gb is too much.

[nvidia]

That always happens..
On my 320GB HDD i only get 300

[gaurav_indian]

Originally Posted by nvidia8800

That always happens..
On my 320GB HDD i only get 300

yeh toh sarasar dhokha hai 35 gb common yaar bahut jyada hai 400-500 mb le lete

[shady_inc]

lol...my entire HDD isn't worth 35 gb. . Larger the HDD,Greater the space get less from the mentioned space.

[Garbage]

I somewhere heard that in Industry, they don't count 1GB = 1024 KBs.
They calculate as 1 GB = 1000 KBs i.e. 10^3

So, industry moves on power of 10 and not on Power of 2.

[ravi_9793]

Originally Posted by shirish_nagar

I somewhere heard that in Industry, they don't count 1GB = 1024 KBs.
They calculate as 1 GB = 1000 KBs i.e. 10^3

So, industry moves on power of 10 and not on Power of 2.

yes..right.

This is one reason why complete 500 Gb is not shown.Infact our OS also use some space to keep system files.

[ThinkFree]

shirish is right, hardware vendors count 1GB as 1000 MB while windows count 1GB as 1024 MB,

Originally Posted by shirish

they don't count 1GB = 1024 KBs.
They calculate as 1 GB = 1000 KBs i.e. 10^3

but 1GB=1024MB,and not 1024KB

[The_Devil_Himself]

kya baat hai gaurav tarraki par hai huh?ab 500+200gb purated material wah!

[harryneopotter]

for hardware vendors .

1 KB= 1000 B
1 MB= 1000 x 1000 B
1 GB= 1000 x 1000 x 1000 B
500 GB = 500 x 1000 x 1000 x 1000 B = 500,000,000,000 bytes

For Windows
1 KB = 1024 B and so on ..
so ur 500,000,000,000 bytes drive will becme
(500,000,000,000) / (1024 x 1024 x 1024 ) GB = 465.66128 GB ............

[praka123]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GiB

[blackleopard92]

for programmers, kilo, mega , giga refer the to power of 2. eg
2^10 == kilobyte
2^20 == megabyte
2^30 == gigabyte

however, these HDD people, use powers of 10 , hence the discrepancy.

[Pathik]

there is a diff b/w giga and gibi..
gibi = 1024*1024*1024
giga = 1000*1000*1000

[ax3]

cool explaination by all of u .....

itne * dekhkar chaakarr aaraha hai ......

& its our loss isnt it ..... u pay 4 500gb bt u get only 465gb .......

yeh nyaan nahi UN-nyaan hai .........

[tango_cash]

i have a simple way for this just assume that you will roughly get 5% less space then the capacity.
eg in 250gb u will actualy get roughly 237gb. this is just an approximation.
all the deep gyan has already been given above.

[..:: Free Radical ::..]

if you want to get the most space out of your hard disk, format it with ntfs with the minimum cluster size that the partition supports and enable compression.

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[zyberboy]

its like that, i got only 300gb frm my 320gb

[alsiladka]

Guys you did not get less. Check the Wiki article. You got what you paid for, only thing is OS shows it up as less.

[zyberboy]

^ where?