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Seagate cheats on the hard drive. 370 gigabytes lost on four Terabytes.

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Seagate cheats on the hard drive. 370 gigabytes lost on four Terabytes.
Hi, I recently bought a Seagate hard drive for my computer, I bought four TB of storage from Seagate and when I plug the new 4TB disk on my computer, my computer shows me 3.63 TB.
Ware is my 370 gigabytes lost.
Seagate hard drive: https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB4000100/dp/B00TKFEE8K
 

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seriously? this is how it works, you didn't notice the other drives all having slightly less than advertised? 

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3 minutes ago, DanielA123 said:

Seagate cheats on the hard drive. 370 gigabytes lost on four Terabytes.

Practically no drive is going to have the exact amount they market it as.

 

My 1TB drive only shows up as being 930 or so gigabytes rather than a full thousand. I would imagine more gets lost like that as drive capacity increases.

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You have the amount of space you should.

If you'd like to read more...

https://lifehacker.com/5950506/why-doesnt-my-new-hard-drive-show-the-right-amount-of-space

 

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Windows uses GiB but reports it as GB. 4TB = 3.63798TiB

You're getting the storage advertised but Windows displays the wrong / dumbed down unit.

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