Hard drive space. Easy question but I can't answer it.

[steveis2]

Hi Here is a question that may seem to simple to ask but I hope you will bear with me as I'm not that computer knowledgeable.
Is 953,867Mb nearly 1Gb or nearly 1Tb?


Regards Steve

 

[RARRAF]

its a 1Tb drive

 

[steveis2]

its a 1Tb drive

Thank you. That solves a conundrum for me.

Steve

 

[Kalonya]

1 TB equals to 1024 GB
and
1 GB equals to 1024 MB

So 1 TB equals to 1024x1024=1048576 MB

 

[popatim]

And in case you are wondering why a ~950GB sized drive gets labelled as 1TB its because the manufacturers label the drive using decimal measurement.
So your drive has 1000000MB which when you convert to "computer standard" size (above) it becomes 953GB.

 

[steveis2]

And in case you are wondering why a ~950GB sized drive gets labelled as 1TB its because the manufacturers label the drive using decimal measurement.
So your drive has 1000000MB which when you convert to "computer standard" size (above) it becomes 953GB.

Actually I was wondering about that. Thanks for clearing it up.

Steve