Hard Drive capacity question

[Johnbear007]

Ive always wondered:

If I have an 80 GB Hard drive, why does it show as 74 GB? Why do I lose 6 GB of space?

 

[bozo1]

The FAQs are your friends.

 

[wetcat007]

Techically 1024 bytes=1KB,1024KB=1MB,1024MB=1GB,1024GB=1Tb and so on, kinda confusing, but with the way computers are designed they had to go by that multiple, otherwise it would cause problems, that's all i know.

 

[Johnbear007]

Originally posted by: wetcat007
Techically 1024 bytes=1KB,1024KB=1MB,1024MB=1GB,1024GB=1Tb and so on, kinda confusing, but with the way computers are designed they had to go by that multiple, otherwise it would cause problems, that's all i know.

im not sure I understand why that matters?

 

[Johnbear007]

ahhh I understand now.


Its kind of lame but oh well ?

 

[Superman9534]

yea HD manufactorers usually use 1mb = 1000k, when it is really 1024. Also formatting takes some of the drive space down.

 

[bgeh]

1024 bytes=1kilobyte,1024kb=1mb,1024mb=1gb
so, the real 80gb should mean having 85,899,345,920 bytes
but the hard drive manufacturers count 80gb as 80,000,000,000 bytes
and that is why you get 74 gb