Post-formatting space seems a bit small..

[Zoogle]

Just formatted a 400GB Hitachi to NTFS and see in Explorer that it only shows 372GB available. 28GB is a lot of space to lose to formatting.... what's the deal? I can only remember losing around 10-15GB on my previous drive, which was 250GB SATA.

System running Vista x64.

 

[Ockie]

Thats normal. It's how manufactures and windows calculate the disk space. It's stupid, but hard drive makers wants to make thier drives seem bigger than they really are so they assume 1000mb is 1gb whereas the os assumes 1024mb is 1gb (binary vs decimal)

 

[Blazestorm]

Basically, multiply whatever your "advertised" size is on the box by .93 and you'll get your "formatted/converted" size.. roughly...

 

[Zoogle]

Haha...I guess I was expecting too much! Thx, good to know that nothings out of order.