Why your 500GB hard drive only shows 465 GB of space when you look und

[vignesh_26]

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[hytecgowthaman]

102501=100Gb accurately.

 

[hytecgowthaman]

Hdd manufacturer use 1000kb = 1mb ,but os manufacturer use 1024kb = 1mb.
if u see in hdd manufacturer side it is 500gb.
if u see in os manufacturer side it is 465gb.
see the hdd sticker for more info.

 

[Dereck47]

HDD & SSD manufacturers calculate 1 Gigabyte as 1,000,000,000 bytes (Base-10 numeral system).
Windows and memory RAM manufacturers calculate 1 Gigabyte as 1,073,741,824 bytes (Binary numeral system).

The difference between the 2 methods is 7%.
7% of 500GB is 35GB, so that is why your formatted size is 465GB.

So whenever you purchase a drive of any size subtract 7% from the advertised capacity and that will be your formatted capacity in Windows.

 

[Pavlo2015]

Disk manufactors(HDD, SSD, SD cards, xD cards, flashes, etc) use a base-10 numeral system, and Windows use a binary system. For example disk manufactors use 1 kilobyte - 1000 byte; 1 megabyte - 1000 kilobyte; 1 gigabyte - 1000 megabyte, etc while operating system, ram, cpu, ppu, gpu manufactors use 1 kilobyte - 1024 byte; 1 megabyte - 1024 kilobyte; 1 gigabyte - 1024 megabyte; 1 terabyte - 1024 gigabytes; 1 petabyte - 1024 terabytes, etc. 500 Base-10 GB is approximately 465.66 Windows GB. Thats why it shows 465.66 gigabytes