Formatted capacity of a 750gb hdd

[jtvang125]

All of my 500gb hdds are 465gb after formatting. I'm assuming a 750 would be about 700gb after formatting?

Also, isn't it still more economical to go with 2 500gb than 1 750gb?

 

[Aikouka]

If I remember correctly, my 750's hold around 698 after formatting.

EDIT:

Originally posted by: jtvang125
Also, isn't it still more economical to go with 2 500gb than 1 750gb?

Money-wise: yes
Space-wise: depends

For me, I was an idiot and bought the smaller version of my main system's case (Lian-Li PC V1200B-plus) and thought it'd be fine size-wise. Well, I was wrong so I've got limited space for drives. I could technically go for 3x 500 rather than 3x 750, but I want the extra room too.

Oh and according to windows calculator, 698.49193096160888671875, is the size. All you do is multiply the listed gigs by 1,000,000,000 and divide by 1,073,741,824 (1024^3).

 

[xitshsif]

Originally posted by: jtvang125
Also, isn't it still more economical to go with 2 500gb than 1 750gb?

A single 750gb will cost about the same as two 500s.
500 GB 750 GB

 

[Steve]

Generally, to find the real capacity of hard drives (and formatting takes up very little of this, BTW), just subtract about 7%:

750x0.93=??? (rough but very close ballpark figure)

The discrepancy has very, very little to do with formatting.