Warby35 Posted April 28, 2009 Posted April 28, 2009 Hi, I recently bought an external hard dive of 1Tb and after formatting it reduced to 931Gb, I was expecting a reduction, but 70Gb? I also have 4 internal HDD in my rig and I am aware of reduction after formatting, but why so much ? Does the OS really need 220Gb (over all) Also I would like to ask if it is possible to reduce the reserved space in any way? by using FAT32 or NTFS I will be buying a 320Gb external HDD for a friend to fill it with Documentaries as a present, how much space will I loose? Thanks, Warby Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
supergeek101 Posted April 28, 2009 Posted April 28, 2009 Hi, I recently bought an external hard dive of 1Tb and after formatting it reduced to 931Gb, I was expecting a reduction, but 70Gb? I also have 4 internal HDD in my rig and I am aware of reduction after formatting, but why so much ? Does the OS really need 220Gb (over all) Also I would like to ask if it is possible to reduce the reserved space in any way? by using FAT32 or NTFS I will be buying a 320Gb external HDD for a friend to fill it with Documentaries as a present, how much space will I loose? Thanks, Warby Well, I did lose almost exactly 35GB on both my 500GB drives, so I wouldn't be surprised at 70GB lost in 1TB Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingdingeling Posted April 28, 2009 Posted April 28, 2009 You can easily calculate the loss. Manufacturers base their space claims on 1000 byte per kilobyte, but it is actually 1024 byte per kilobyte. You can easily calculate it from there Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d3bruts1d Posted April 28, 2009 Posted April 28, 2009 Operating systems use a binary measurement for HDD capacity, where HDD manufacturers use a base 10 system. As the size of drives increase, you will see a larger difference between the numbers. The difference at the mega- level is ~5%, giga- is ~7%, tera- ~9%, and peta- is ~11%. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warby35 Posted April 28, 2009 Posted April 28, 2009 Also I would like to ask if it is possible to reduce the reserved space in any way? by using FAT32 or NTFS I will be buying a 320Gb external HDD for a friend to fill it with Documentaries as a present, how much space will I loose? anybody got an Answer to these two questions? i did a bit of calculating and 30Gb per 320, does that sound about right? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warby35 Posted May 1, 2009 Posted May 1, 2009 anybody got an Answer to these two questions? i did a bit of calculating and 30Gb per 320, does that sound about right? sry-bump is 30gb from 320gb sound about right? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco Posted May 2, 2009 Posted May 2, 2009 298gigs is what you are left with on a 320gig drive. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warby35 Posted May 2, 2009 Posted May 2, 2009 298gigs is what you are left with on a 320gig drive. Thx, Bosco Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comp Dude2 Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 For NTFS, multiply the stated size by 0.931 p.s, that number seems fairly obvious since your 1000gb formats to 931gb but i swear i knew of it before reading that lol. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCC10281982B Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 298gigs is what you are left with on a 320gig drive. same here Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venocide Posted May 17, 2009 Posted May 17, 2009 just a question, Warby, but how did you get/make ur profile animation guy? I think its friggin funny as hell. I see myself doing the same thing. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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