My 128GB SSD showed 119GB, why?

[Cherlotte]

My 128GB SSD showed 119GB, why?
I bought it a few days ago.It is 128GB SSD.But,i installed it than it showed 119GB ....
What's going on? Is it normal?

 

[getochkn]

Yes. HD companies define a GB at 1000MB, where as it's really 1024MB, so true formatted capacity is lower than what the box says.

 

[junkeymonkey]

as with all hard drives the drive is just smaller in the real usable space and its rounded up to fit a size category

like a 500gb drive will really have around 475gb and so on .. its a normal practice and you should be fine

 

[Cherlotte]

Yes. HD companies define a GB at 1000MB, where as it's really 1024MB, so true formatted capacity is lower than what the box says.

Why the system took out 9GB from the SSD?

 

[junkeymonkey]

windows takes 19gb if you manually install it if you let it install iut self it thake 19gb plus -x- amount for system reserve so on a 160 to a 500gb drive it ends up around 30gb lost to windows [ platter] I never used a ssd so I assume its the same ??

 

[USAFRet]

Absolutely normal. My Kingston 128:

 

[Cherlotte]

Absolutely normal. My Kingston 128:

You have still 110GB in your SSD?

Nothing installed in your SSD?

 

[USAFRet]

Absolutely normal. My Kingston 128:

You have still 110GB in your SSD?

Nothing installed in your SSD?

No, that's total capacity.
Actual used space is 65.7GB

 

[junkeymonkey]

funny to me the pie chart shows 1/3 of the drive used with Actual used space is 65.7GB x3 = well over 120gb

then you got 2 things circled 119 and 110 so the 119gb is actual size and theres 64gb used so whats the 110gb??

or is it that if this is a windows 8 it installs on less then 8gb of deive space??

nothing there seems to add up unless I require 10 more cups of joe to wake me on up

 

[USAFRet]

Yes, you need more Joe...😉

The blue space is 'used', the pinkish is 'free space'. 65.9 and 44.9, respectively.

 

[junkeymonkey]

lol I see now said the blind man thanks

 

[Andrewo0o]

Isn't That False Advertising? Can't They Get Sue For It? I Mean I Purchase A Card That Says 128GB, It Should Have 128GB Not 119GB In Which This Is False Advertising

 

[USAFRet]

Isn't That False Advertising? Can't They Get Sue For It? I Mean I Purchase A Card That Says 128GB, It Should Have 128GB Not 119GB In Which This Is False Advertising

See this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte

It's just how it is counted.

 

[nick779]

Isn't That False Advertising? Can't They Get Sue For It? I Mean I Purchase A Card That Says 128GB, It Should Have 128GB Not 119GB In Which This Is False Advertising

You guys are funny.

 

[giantbucket]

computer people f'd it up for EVERYONE for generations until the end of time. instead of a kilobyte being 1000 bytes, they went with 1024 cuz it was more "binary friendly" even though kilo is from base-10. so a computer kilobyte = 1024 bytes, but a literal kilobyte = 1000 bytes. this problem cascades to megabyte (1024*1024) and gigabyte (1024*1024*1024) and so on. the further down the chain you go, the larger the difference ends up being.

idiots (computer people)!

 

[USAFRet]

idiots (computer people)!

Idiots. Yes.
The people who designed the CPU and hard drive you are using now. And the whole internet connectivity thing. And the protocol for how you access this website....

...those idiots.

 

[giantbucket]

no, the idiots who decided that normal english wasn't good enough for their leet haxor minds, and had to invent a whole new mathematical term while continuing to use common english words to define it. THOSE idiots. the guys who invented the cpu were simply getting tired of lugging around a truck full of vacuum tubes.

 

[USAFRet]

no, the idiots who decided that normal english wasn't good enough for their leet haxor minds, and had to invent a whole new mathematical term while continuing to use common english words to define it. THOSE idiots. the guys who invented the cpu were simply getting tired of lugging around a truck full of vacuum tubes.

Oh, you mean marketing people. Those guys....right?

 

[giantbucket]

eh? the marketing gigabytes are the literal gigabytes. they didn't screw up anything. the geeks defined it as 1024 and forced the marketing & legal team to put a disclaimer on every package that "actual capacity may be smaller (because someone else decided to f around with the definitions)"

thankfully, windows explorer properties still shows the numbers in huge comma-separated bytes, so it's dead easy for anyone to see exactly how many "the number on the package" gigabytes they're using for their files.

 

[USAFRet]

Decimal vs binary.
Which one does your computer use?

 

[giantbucket]

gigabyte is english last time i checked.

hey, shouldn't you be all over THIS thread by now? RAID on SSDs: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2563146/ssd-raid-config-hdd.html

 

[USAFRet]

gigabyte is english last time i checked.

hey, shouldn't you be all over THIS thread by now? RAID on SSDs: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2563146/ssd-raid-config-hdd.html

I'm failing to see what your issue is here.
gigabyte vs gibibyte
1000 vs 1024

Or is there some other issue that I am not aware of?

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

My 128GB SSD showed 119GB, why?
I bought it a few days ago.It is 128GB SSD.But,i installed it than it showed 119GB ....
What's going on? Is it normal?

http://www.ussscctv.com/harddrivesizecapacitiescalculator.aspx
Understanding Advertised vs. Actual Drive Storage Capacities

 

[giantbucket]

gigabyte is english last time i checked.

hey, shouldn't you be all over THIS thread by now? RAID on SSDs: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2563146/ssd-raid-config-hdd.html

I'm failing to see what your issue is here.
gigabyte vs gibibyte
1000 vs 1024

Or is there some other issue that I am not aware of?

when's the last time ANYONE in any computer-related media used GiB instead of GB as a suffix? or even the full Gibigyte terms? near-as-never. the only reason that term exists is to attempt to undo the damage caused N decades ago, as a sort of cop-out that nobody bothers to use anyways (but it's there, as a cop-out)

(update)
and anyways, i don't have a problem with it. i know which numbers to actually look at when i examine my hdd properties - it's the one with all the commas.

 

[USAFRet]

gigabyte is english last time i checked.

hey, shouldn't you be all over THIS thread by now? RAID on SSDs: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2563146/ssd-raid-config-hdd.html

I'm failing to see what your issue is here.
gigabyte vs gibibyte
1000 vs 1024

Or is there some other issue that I am not aware of?

when's the last time ANYONE in any computer-related media used GiB instead of GB as a suffix? or even the full Gibigyte terms? near-as-never. the only reason that term exists is to attempt to undo the damage caused N decades ago, as a sort of cop-out that nobody bothers to use anyways (but it's there, as a cop-out)

(update)
and anyways, i don't have a problem with it. i know which numbers to actually look at when i examine my hdd properties - it's the one with all the commas.

When was the last time anyone using a computer of any type used binary?
Always....