New Hard drive

[lampshade29]

I just bought a new HD and the drive is Seagate 200 gig and i am curious to i installed it using the supplied software and when it was all said and done my computer only showed that i had 187 gig free is that normal?? and if so why??

 

[BurnItDwn]

200GB (decimal GB = 1,000,000,000 Bytes as the drive makers measure) is about the same as 187.264GB (Binary ... GB = 2^30 Bytes = 1,073,741,824 Bytes)

200 * 1,000,000,000,000 = 200,000,000,000,000 Bytes ... 186 * 1,073,741,824 ~ 199,999,447,105... of course this is with rounding things off.

You didn't lose any space, this is just a different interpretation as to how the Drive makers interpret GB and how windows interprets it.

 

[Polishwonder74]

You'll be losing more, too. Some space is taken up by the file table as you cram more goodies into there.

 

[Yanagi]

WHat BurnItDwn said. basicly a gig for harddrive makers is 1000 Megabytes. But windows reads a gig as 1024 megabytes. Hence the "loss" of data. But its still the same amount of data though. confusing?

 

[islandtechengineers]

Yanagi = "But its still the same amount of data though. confusing?"

BurnItDwn = "You didn't lose any space, this is just a different interpretation as to how the Drive makers interpret GB and how windows interprets it."

its not really that confusing... think opend minded-ness with all possibilities (that has a couple of i's in it...).

 

[caz67]

You get used to it..LOL

 

[HardcoreRobot]

Its not just seagate or that HD either. all manufacturers measure their drives like that.