My 180 GB & 1 TB hard drives are showing as 166 GB & 931 GB It has to be 180 gb and 1 tb

[愛と愛]

Why? solution?

[愛と愛]

Total Space C: 166 GB but it has to be 180 GB and My external D drive is 931 GB it has to be 1 tb

[Ogami]

Yup thats normal. Read this:

https://petapixel.com/2012/10/10/why-hard-drives-and-memory-cards-have-less-space-than-advertised/


Basically, the companies advertise 1GB as 1,000,000,000 byte but a computer counts 1GB as 1,073,741,824 byte.

So you "lose" around 7% of the space when using any kind of HDD or memory card.

[sithlordofsnark]

HDD's have a bit of information on them which can't be deleted, so it's invisible to the naked eye. You'll never get a HDD that is exactly as advertised due to this.

[愛と愛]

ratedx73 lähetti viestin:

HDD's have a bit of information on them which can't be deleted, so it's invisible to the naked eye. You'll never get a HDD that is exactly as advertised due to this.

My SSD is 180 gb but it shows total space as 166 GB

[Ogami]

• CombatCipher • lähetti viestin:

ratedx73 lähetti viestin:

HDD's have a bit of information on them which can't be deleted, so it's invisible to the naked eye. You'll never get a HDD that is exactly as advertised due to this.

My SSD is 180 gb but it shows total space as 166 GB

Yes, READ what i posted above.

ratedx73 lähetti viestin:

HDD's have a bit of information on them which can't be deleted, so it's invisible to the naked eye. You'll never get a HDD that is exactly as advertised due to this.

Has nothing to do with it. Read the link above.

[MancSoulja]

Because formatting and IEC binary.

[愛と愛]

Ogami lähetti viestin:

• CombatCipher • lähetti viestin:

My SSD is 180 gb but it shows total space as 166 GB

Yes, READ what i posted above.

Okay, looks like it is a troll by companies.

[愛と愛]

MancSoulja lähetti viestin:

Because formatting and IEC binary.

all disk formatts are NTFS and i never heard about IEC Binary

[MancSoulja]

• CombatCipher • lähetti viestin:

MancSoulja lähetti viestin:

Because formatting and IEC binary.

all disk formatts are NTFS and i never heard about IEC Binary

The IEC is the International Electronics Commision. The IEC is an organisation charged with worldwide standardization in electrotechnology. In 1998 they decided that 1GB was no longer 1024MB, but 1000 MB and 1024 MB would be called a gibibyte. However the way computers work can't be changed that easily and they still consider a GB to be 1024 MB.

[Kesac]

To be precise - 180GB in HD space is equal to ~167.6GiB, and 1TB is equal to ~931GiB. The former is what hard drives are advertised as, the latter is what operating systems report.