How Come 1.5tb Is Only 1.36tb?

[onyabike]

Got a new WD harddrive - box says it's 1.5TB but when connect it up PC says it's only 1.36. that's a 140GB shortfall. quite a bit of vid and piccys that wont have a home.

[Get StukD]

The bigger your hard drive gets the less value is put on gigs so in comparison the short fall isnt much. My ipod was 3.6/4

[pissface]

Got a new WD harddrive - box says it's 1.5TB but when connect it up PC says it's only 1.36. that's a 140GB shortfall. quite a bit of vid and piccys that wont have a home.

because drive manufacturers have let their marketing departments define "terabyte "megabytes" etc as base 10 numbers I mean multiples of 10, eg they call one megabyte 1000k instead of 1024 or whatever it really is. extrapolate that up to terabyte and you have a whole heap of missing numbers.



wikipedia sez:
* In standard SI usage, 1 terabyte (TB) equals 1000000000000bytes = 10004 or 1012 bytes.
* Using the traditional binary interpretation, a terabyte would be 1099511627776bytes = 10244 = 240 bytes = 1 tebibyte (TiB).

your computer will be using the "traditional binary interpretation", . the packaging will be using SI

[bugle]

Urine Visage is correct 1000 v 1024

[iodi]

Got a new WD harddrive - box says it's 1.5TB but when connect it up PC says it's only 1.36. that's a 140GB shortfall. quite a bit of vid and piccys that wont have a home.

because drive manufacturers have let their marketing departments define "terabyte "megabytes" etc as base 10 numbers I mean multiples of 10, eg they call one megabyte 1000k instead of 1024 or whatever it really is. extrapolate that up to terabyte and you have a whole heap of missing numbers.

ie. they lie.

The 1.5TB is also a gross capacity, before deducting the overhead required for the file system formatting. The net capacity you're seeing is what would be expected after allowing for formatting and marketing lies.

[RussS]

We call them Weasel Bytes

[onyabike]

bloody national

[shmoodiver]

i knoe!

[Mr_Bob]

Noticed the same thing on my 1.5Tb drive too

[Wobbler]

that's a pretty big reduction in fapping materiel

[itguynz]

Its all in binary so use data with more 1's rather than 0's - its common knowledge they take up less space.

[phunk]

1.36TB is still alot of porn.

[RJD]

Its GST on your bytes.

[heathen]

covert to a better file system..

[RJD]

covert to a better file system..

Yeah that'll make the manufacturers use 1024 instead of 1000 ....