Windows says I have less storage than what I have

Speedy Owl · Apr 22, 2016

I have a 2 TB hard drive and a 512 GB SSD, but when I go to settings and then storage in Windows 10, it says I have 385 GB used out of 476 GB. I know that they are plugged in and the pc recognizes them in the bios. What could be the issue?

Harrisonj11315 · Apr 22, 2016

gib v gb

USAFRet · Apr 22, 2016

Speedy Owl :

GB vs GiB
Base 10 vs Base 2

Read more here:
http://wintelguy.com/gb2gib.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte

And the lawsuit from clueless people, based on those numbers:
http://www.cnet.com/news/gigabytes-vs-gibibytes-class-action-suit-nears-end/

You have not 'lost' any drive space.

Gnuffi · Apr 22, 2016

its because computers and harddrive manufacturers use different values for bytes
a realworld physical "thingymagic" comes from the factory with a value of 1-1, as in 1TB equal 1000 Gigabyte and 1 gigabyte = 1000 megabytes
the conflict lies in thats not how computers work because they use a different bit type system calculation so its no longer 1-1 because for computers 1Gigabyte=1024megabytes
so you just "lost" some, but really you didnt, the manufacturer just suck at maffs

Tradesman1 · Apr 23, 2016

Depending on how you format the drive you also lose a little space depending on the cluster size used in formatting

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