My 128GB SSD showed 119GB, why?
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as with all hard drives the drive is just smaller in the real usable space and its rounded up to fit a size category
like a 500gb drive will really have around 475gb and so on .. its a normal practice and you should be fine
like a 500gb drive will really have around 475gb and so on .. its a normal practice and you should be fine
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windows takes 19gb if you manually install it if you let it install iut self it thake 19gb plus -x- amount for system reserve so on a 160 to a 500gb drive it ends up around 30gb lost to windows [ platter] I never used a ssd so I assume its the same ??
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funny to me the pie chart shows 1/3 of the drive used with Actual used space is 65.7GB x3 = well over 120gb
then you got 2 things circled 119 and 110 so the 119gb is actual size and theres 64gb used so whats the 110gb??
or is it that if this is a windows 8 it installs on less then 8gb of deive space??
nothing there seems to add up unless I require 10 more cups of joe to wake me on up
then you got 2 things circled 119 and 110 so the 119gb is actual size and theres 64gb used so whats the 110gb??
or is it that if this is a windows 8 it installs on less then 8gb of deive space??
nothing there seems to add up unless I require 10 more cups of joe to wake me on up
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computer people f'd it up for EVERYONE for generations until the end of time. instead of a kilobyte being 1000 bytes, they went with 1024 cuz it was more "binary friendly" even though kilo is from base-10. so a computer kilobyte = 1024 bytes, but a literal kilobyte = 1000 bytes. this problem cascades to megabyte (1024*1024) and gigabyte (1024*1024*1024) and so on. the further down the chain you go, the larger the difference ends up being.
idiots (computer people)!
idiots (computer people)!
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no, the idiots who decided that normal english wasn't good enough for their leet haxor minds, and had to invent a whole new mathematical term while continuing to use common english words to define it. THOSE idiots. the guys who invented the cpu were simply getting tired of lugging around a truck full of vacuum tubes.
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eh? the marketing gigabytes are the literal gigabytes. they didn't screw up anything. the geeks defined it as 1024 and forced the marketing & legal team to put a disclaimer on every package that "actual capacity may be smaller (because someone else decided to f around with the definitions)"
thankfully, windows explorer properties still shows the numbers in huge comma-separated bytes, so it's dead easy for anyone to see exactly how many "the number on the package" gigabytes they're using for their files.
thankfully, windows explorer properties still shows the numbers in huge comma-separated bytes, so it's dead easy for anyone to see exactly how many "the number on the package" gigabytes they're using for their files.
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gigabyte is english last time i checked.
hey, shouldn't you be all over THIS thread by now? RAID on SSDs: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2563146/ssd-raid-config-hdd.html
hey, shouldn't you be all over THIS thread by now? RAID on SSDs: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2563146/ssd-raid-config-hdd.html
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http://www.ussscctv.com/harddrivesizecapacitiescalculator.aspx
Understanding Advertised vs. Actual Drive Storage Capacities
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when's the last time ANYONE in any computer-related media used GiB instead of GB as a suffix? or even the full Gibigyte terms? near-as-never. the only reason that term exists is to attempt to undo the damage caused N decades ago, as a sort of cop-out that nobody bothers to use anyways (but it's there, as a cop-out)
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and anyways, i don't have a problem with it. i know which numbers to actually look at when i examine my hdd properties - it's the one with all the commas.
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giantbucket :
when's the last time ANYONE in any computer-related media used GiB instead of GB as a suffix? or even the full Gibigyte terms? near-as-never. the only reason that term exists is to attempt to undo the damage caused N decades ago, as a sort of cop-out that nobody bothers to use anyways (but it's there, as a cop-out)
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and anyways, i don't have a problem with it. i know which numbers to actually look at when i examine my hdd properties - it's the one with all the commas.
When was the last time anyone using a computer of any type used binary?
Always....
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