SSHD Missing Space

[Kal4shn1k0v]

Hello all,

So I just bought a brand new Seagate firecuda 2TB SSHD drive, still unformatted and untouched. When i tried to format it i noticed that it only has 1862GB, which means over 100GB went missing somehow.

So if someone knows a solution, please help.

[Oshino Shinobu]

Windows is actually showing Gibibytes, not Gigabytes. 2000 Gigabytes = 1862.645 Gibibytes. 

 

There's no missing space, it's exactly 2000 Gigabytes/2 Terabytes, just Windows is using the wrong abbreviation. It should show it as GiB or convert it to GB, but it doesn't for some reason. 

 

EDIT: As a note, computers work using Mebibytes, Gibibytes, Tebibytes etc. which are binary (base 2), but most of the time it's quoted and advertised in Megabytes, Gigabytes, Terabytes etc. which are decimal (base 10) and are easier for us humans to work with. 

 

Most of the time, they're used somewhat interchangeably as it often makes a very small amount of difference, but when you start getting into higher capacity drives, the difference becomes fairly obvious. 

 

I see a lot of people passing it off as being "manufacturing tolerances/overhead", but it's simply a matter of Windows not using the right abbreviations or not converting the units. Honestly, I don't know why Windows doesn't convert the units, it would completely solve the issue.