Formatted 6400AAKS usuable space?

[WiLLiSTER]

Is it normal for this drive to only have about 596gb after formatting? Seems like a bit much to be taken up, but maybe there's nothing wrong and I'm just paranoid.

 

[Dangman]

That's about right.

 

[Blazestorm]

1000 - 1024 conversion...

Operating Systems read Gigabytes as 1024megabytes in 1 Gigabyte, HDD Manufacturers list 1000megabytes as 1 gigabyte.

If you right click the drive and hit properties the number listed under "Capacity" should be the size of your drive... my 320 WD AAKS is 298GB Formatted to windows, buy under Capacity it's listed 320,070,479,872 bytes. 320 being the key number at the beginning.

 

[ilkhan]

596.04644GiB = 640*1,000,000,000/(1024*1024*1024)
.931322 * advertised gets you the actual amount of space. A 1TB drive loses almost 70GB.
So, yup.

 

[xenotype]

Is it normal for this drive to only have about 596gb after formatting? Seems like a bit much to be taken up, but maybe there's nothing wrong and I'm just paranoid.

Lol, for someone with such a high postcount, lurk MOAR!

 

[bigdogchris]

I think I had 595 GB on mine.