11-09-2008, 06:21 PM
Well, I knew you lost some to formating but didn't realize so much.
It's not lost in formatting. Actual formatting takes a small portion of that "loss".
It's the difference between the marketing telling you you're buying a 500G HD, and you finding there's only 479G of actual storage.
This is similar to buying CRT TVs or monitors (remember those) and being told that it was a 27" TV or a 17" monitor and finding out that the actual viewing area was only 25" or 16" respectively.
As has been pointed out, the unit size (GB) is assigned two different values as a "standard". As the HD size increases, so does the amount of space "lost".
I think 1T ends up around 928G, but I don't do the math.
It's not lost in formatting. Actual formatting takes a small portion of that "loss".
It's the difference between the marketing telling you you're buying a 500G HD, and you finding there's only 479G of actual storage.
This is similar to buying CRT TVs or monitors (remember those) and being told that it was a 27" TV or a 17" monitor and finding out that the actual viewing area was only 25" or 16" respectively.
As has been pointed out, the unit size (GB) is assigned two different values as a "standard". As the HD size increases, so does the amount of space "lost".
I think 1T ends up around 928G, but I don't do the math.