external hard drive 468 gb left instead of 500?

[Theminecraftaddict555]

Oddly enough when I bought my 500gb toshiba hard drive, it shows it having 468 instead of 500?

[Adam39gripen]

there are diffrent GBs

[Theminecraftaddict555]

there are diffrent GBs

Clarify or i will consider that answer a useless one 

[YameteSenpai]

I have a Toshiba external as well. They dont actually come with 500 GB. It's more of can guarantee that the number is somewhere near 500

[Arty]

I have a Toshiba external as well. They dont actually come with 500 GB. It's more of can guarantee that the number is somewhere near 500

WINDOWS MEASURES IN GIB not GB

 

*cough* simple google search *cough*

[Adam39gripen]

ok there are Gb and GB as you know and binarys

[Theminecraftaddict555]

WINDOWS MEASURES IN GIB not GB

 

*cough* simple google search *cough*

OH so I actually do have 500gb just that windows shows it in a different way?

[Adam39gripen]

Kilobyte kB 10³Kibibyte KiB (KB) 2¹⁰

Megabyte MB 10⁶Mebibyte MiB 2²⁰

Gigabyte GB 10⁹Gibibyte GiB 2³⁰

Terabyte TB 10¹²Tebibyte TiB 2⁴⁰

Petabyte PB 10¹⁵Pebibyte PiB 2⁵

⁰Exabyte EB 10¹⁸Exbibyte EiB 2⁶⁰

Zettabyte ZB 10²¹Zebibyte ZiB 2⁷⁰

Yottabyte YB 10²⁴Yobibyte YiB 2⁸⁰

[Arty]

ok there are Gb and GB as you know and binarys

Stop thier before you give wrong info

yes thier is gigabyte and gigabit, but windows mesures in Gibibyte and Gibibit

[Arty]

OH so I actually do have 500gb just that windows shows it in a different way?

yes.....

[YameteSenpai]

Stop thier before you give wrong info

yes thier is gigabyte and gigabit, but windows mesures in Gibibyte and Gibibit

The gigabyte (/ˈɡɪɡəbaɪt/ GIG-ə-byt or /ˈdʒɪɡəbaɪt/) is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The prefix giga means 10⁹ in the International System of Units (SI), therefore one gigabyte is 1000000000bytes. The unit symbol for the gigabyte is GB.

 

Windows measures in GB

 

Edit: My bad. Apparently mine measure both for some reason.

[Adam39gripen]

Stop thier before you give wrong info

yes thier is gigabyte and gigabit, but windows mesures in Gibibyte and Gibibit

 

i said so binarys!!!

[Arty]

i said so binarys!!!

 

you explained it after

The gigabyte (/ˈɡɪɡəbaɪt/ GIG-ə-byt or /ˈdʒɪɡəbaɪt/) is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The prefix giga means 10⁹ in the International System of Units (SI), therefore one gigabyte is 1000000000bytes. The unit symbol for the gigabyte is GB.

 

Windows measures in GB

 

Edit: My bad. Apparently mine measure both for some reason.

windows i supposed to measure in gigibyte   idk why you don't see it on your pc that way.

[YameteSenpai]

you explained it after

windows i supposed to measure in gigibyte   idk why you don't see it on your pc that way.

yeah idk either. But it's whatever

[Pitythefool]

Manufacturers measure bytes as 1000, when bytes are in fact 1024. Thus you end up with roughly a 7% loss on any advertised hard drive size. 1tb = 931, 500gb = ~466, etc

 

So for 1tb its 1,000,000,000 bytes divided by (1024 x 1024 x 1024 which equals 1073741824) which comes out to 0.93132257 thus the 931gb on a '1tb hdd'

[Guest]

yes.....

Wait, isn't it with all drivers that there is not always e.g. 500GB? Like they don't ever have the full space advertised? 

[Arty]

Wait, isn't it with all drivers that there is not always e.g. 500GB? Like they don't ever have the full space advertised? 

a 500GB drive is 500GB but is  ~465 GIB which is what windows shows.

[Boink]

Hard drive manufacturers measure in true Gigabytes which are based off powers of 10 so by that measurement 1 Gigabyte = 1000 Megabytes, 1 megabyte = 1000 Kilobytes, and so on.

 

Windows measures in what is commonly called a Gibibyte which is based off powers of 2. This is much easier to calculate due to computer architecture being based purely off of binary which was helpful in the early days of computers. 1 Gibibyte = 1024 Mibibytes and so on. This is much easier to measure with a computer, but as drive space gets larger, the inaccuracies add up.

[Guest]

Manufacturers measure bytes as 1000, when bytes are in fact 1024. Thus you end up with roughly a 7% loss on any advertised hard drive size. 1tb = 931, 500gb = ~466, etc

 

So for 1tb its 1,000,000,000 divided by (1024 x 1024 x 1024 which equals 1073741824) which comes out to 0.93132257 thus the 931gb on a '1tb hdd'

Really? The more you know... 

[kev507]

some manufacturers are finally starting to move to GiB and TiB for their drives, HP recently shifted all of their enterprise class drives over, so hopefully this will continue and the confusion will decrease going forward