WHY IS MY NEW HDD 2.73TB AND NOT 3TB ? I Just Bought a new hdd

[Tristan]

WHY IS MY NEW HDD 2.73TB AND NOT 3TB ? I Just Bought a new hdd

Bought it

one because mine is getting old

two to back up all my steam games

so it is a 3TB NORMALL 7200 RPM HDD

BUT WHEN I WANTED TO CREAT A NEW PARTATION

THE SIZE SHRUNK MATTER IN FACT IT EVEN SAID SOMETHING LIKE

2TB INSTEAD OF THE 2.73 WHAT I HAVE NOW



thank u

[r.linder]

Advertised space is in GiB, not GB. Actual storage space is 2.73TB, which is equal to 3000 GiB.

Yes, it's BS, but it's just how it is.

[Tristan]

Originally posted by Escorve:

Advertised space is in GiB, not GB. Actual storage space is 2.73TB, which is equal to 3000 GiB.

Yes, it's BS, but it's just how it is.

as long as its not BROKE OR A BAD HDD

MANY THANKS

[Andrius227]

At least you can round up to 3 tb. I have a 12tb drive which is actually 10.9 tb.

Its normal ofc, but still dumb and needlessly confusing.

[Tristan]

Originally posted by Andrius227:

At least you can round up to 3 tb. I have a 12tb drive which is actually 10.9 tb.

Its normal ofc, but still dumb and needlessly confusing.

that is not right :) but anyway we are still alive

[Cave Yeti Supreme]

HDD manufacturers have historically measured bits and bytes in SI. One kilobyte is 1,000 bytes, megabyte is 1,000,000 (styled KB and MB respectively).

Mebibyte (styled MiB) is how modern software and operating systems (technically correct is the best kind of correct!) measure capacity and storage space in binary. One kibibyte is 1,024 bytes, one mebibyte is 1,048,576 bytes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibyte

[Tristan]

Originally posted by ANACHRONiSM:

HDD manufacturers have historically measured bits and bytes in SI. One kilobyte is 1,000 bytes, megabyte is 1,000,000 (styled KB and MB respectively).

Mebibyte (styled MiB) is how modern software and operating systems (technically correct is the best kind of correct!) measure capacity and storage space in binary. One kibibyte is 1,024 bytes, one mebibyte is 1,048,576 bytes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibyte

thank u for explaining that

BUT I HATE MATH

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Cause that's how the formatting works. Is 100gb, 100 after a format? No its approx 93

[nullable]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Cause that's how the formatting works. Is 100gb, 100 after a format? No its approx 93

100GB is 100GB after formatting. It's just that gigabyte is an overloaded term that sometimes mean 1,000,000,000 bytes and other times means 1,073,741,824 bytes. If you don't know when all those conversions happen, sure confusion is natural. All the other prefixes are affected the same way, it just becomes a smaller margin of error as the size shrinks.

But this is a consequence of co-opting those SI prefixes in the 70's when being off by a few bytes hardly mattered. Now 45ish years later we're off by billions or trillions of bytes between base10 and base2 values. But no one is interested in using the binary terminology either. And if we can put up with it in the last twenty years we can probably tolerate the problem for another twenty years.

[Tristan]

Originally posted by Brockenstein:

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Cause that's how the formatting works. Is 100gb, 100 after a format? No its approx 93

100GB is 100GB after formatting. It's just that gigabyte is an overloaded term that sometimes mean 1,000,000,000 bytes and other times means 1,073,741,824 bytes. If you don't know when all those conversions happen, sure confusion is natural. All the other prefixes are affected the same way, it just becomes a smaller margin of error as the size shrinks.

But this is a consequence of co-opting those SI prefixes in the 70's when being off by a few bytes hardly mattered. Now 45ish years later we're off by billions or trillions of bytes between base10 and base2 values. But no one is interested in using the binary terminology either. And if we can put up with it in the last twenty years we can probably tolerate the problem for another twenty years.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

What I should have said is...
How 100GB appears in Windows OS after formatting it. Since 1000 is an example of what retailers use as the space you are buying, but in an actual OS it uses 1024 instead of 1000.