WD My book 8 TB Ext HDD Question

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IamMike

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Hey,

i bought a WD My book 8 TB Ext HDD,

i only have 7.28 TB usable, is there a way to make it closer to 8 TB ?
it's almost 1 TB i lose i mean i know there a bit of the total but that not a bit anymore ...

Thx.
 
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Dragos Manea
This issue comes from the calculation of the space, the producer consider it 1000 bytes is a kb when in reality is 1024 bytes. With the new math 8.000.000.000.000 bytes divided by 1024 4 times (1st time to get kB, 2nd time to get MB, 3rd time to get GB, 4th time to get TB) you get 7,276 TB. This is your real storage space.

EDIT: A little google should that cleared things up for you really fast.
http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/HDD/HDD_Capacity_FAQ.html
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This issue comes from the calculation of the space, the producer consider it 1000 bytes is a kb when in reality is 1024 bytes. With the new math 8.000.000.000.000 bytes divided by 1024 4 times (1st time to get kB, 2nd time to get MB, 3rd time to get GB, 4th time to get TB) you get 7,276 TB. This is your real storage space.

EDIT: A little google should that cleared things up for you really fast.
http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/HDD/HDD_Capacity_FAQ.html
 
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IamMike

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They should change that ...
i'm sure many ppl don't even know about that and would feel like they've been ripped of lol
Thanks anyway.
 
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"They should change that"

They would if they could all agree to change it at the same time, trouble is none of them wants to be the first to change it since their own drives would then look more expensive (per megabyte) than those from their rivals.

So it ain't gonna happen anytime soon, if ever.

Once you are aware of the arithmetic (as I've been aware for the past 25 years at least) it really is no big deal anyway.
 
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