why is my 30gb hd only getting displayed as a 27.9gb?

[eshtog]

its a wd 30gb

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

b/c the wd 30 gb drive isn't really 30 gbs. It's really 30,000,000,000 bytes which isn't really 30gbs, because 1mb is 1024k.

My recently purchased wd800bb says 80gb, but it's showing 74.5. My wd600bb shows 55.7. you get about 93% of the actual space b/c Hard drive makers market these things a little deceptively.

If you do a search it's been explained multiple times.

 

[eshtog]

ok thanks !

 

[BCYL]

Also after you format the partition information and master boot record take up some space...

The harddrive manufacturers use 1kb = 1000bytes... while really 1kb = 1024bytes...

So if u take 30,000,000,000bytes / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 = 27.9gb

 

[tornadobox]

that's a pretty darn good explanation 🙂 my new 100GB western digital drive shows up as 93.1GB

 

[Dan]

Hey eshtog! How have you been? Did you ever get the rounded IDE cables you were looking for?

 

[billyjak]

Yea my 120gig WDJB shows up as 112
Kind of sucks the, labeling should be changed to reflect this.