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I recently purchased a 4TB external hard drive. It was the first hard drive I have ever come across that had exactly 4tb of free space when I opened it. Usually
by rickdale 14y ago
I recently purchased a 4TB external hard drive. It was the first hard drive I have ever come across that had exactly 4tb of free space when I opened it. Usually its a little bit less. I can remember my 80gig hard drive I spent all summer saving up for back around 2000 only have 66gigs and being totally bummed out.
I know with flash memory the units are more exact, but are they getting better with the spinning hd's with the space accuracy?
- janus 14y agoDo you have a mac? OS x reports free space differently since the last few versions
- callahad 14y ago> are they getting better with the spinning hd's with the space accuracy? It's not so much a question of accuracy as it is one of units. Storage manufacturers have typically used GB, software has typically used GiB, labeled as "GB." 1 GB = 10^9 = 1,000,000,000 bytes 1 GiB = 2^30 = 1,073,741,824 bytes Which is why your 80,000,000,000 byte HD is 80 GB on the box but 74.5 GiB when plugged in. OS X 10.6 decided to harmonize the two: it reports size in terms of GB (10^9), abandoning GiB (2^30), meaning what you see on the box finally matches what you see in software. The downside is that your files appear larger than you may be used to, since that "1.00 GB" (GiB) file is now being reported as "1.07 GB."