My laptop is 500gb and 2gb ram tells me i have 417gb free of 447

[fleetdianne]

Hello,
My laptop is telling me I have417gb freeof 447, how do I read that. My laptop is 500gb.

 

[azathoth]

http/www.techimo.com/forum/storage-related/157623-real-advertised-hard-drive-sizes-why-you-dont-get-all-space-you-pay.html

In short, the manufacturers count Gigabytes as 1,000,000,000 bytes but in reality a Gigabyte is 1,048,576 Bytes. So that drive being advertised as 500GB correct being 447GB. It's stupid I know but blame the manufacturers.

 

[fleetdianne]

http/www.techimo.com/forum/storage-related/157623-real-advertised-hard-drive-sizes-why-you-dont-get-all-space-you-pay.html

In short, the manufacturers count Gigabytes as 1,000,000,000 bytes but in reality a Gigabyte is 1,048,576 Bytes. So that drive being advertised as 500GB correct being 447GB. It's stupid I know but blame the manufacturers.

Thankyou

 

[fleetdianne]

Azathoth is right. Formatted disks are always smaller then the actual advertised size. You have used 30GB of your disk.

thankyou

 

[fleetdianne]

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