500 gb but actually 465: Could anyone please tell me why the stated memory is not the actual memory for the harddrive?
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Simple Answer: To sum it up the detail answer. Companies use SI units to compute their hard drive size, 500 gigabyte is 500,000,000,000, while the computer itself uses binary to compute hard drive size, 500 gigabyte is 536,870,912,000. So if you do the math, 1 - ( 500,000,000,000 / 536,870,912,000) = 7% difference. So 500 - ( 500 * 7%(0.07) ) = 465. So the actual hard drive size would be 465 gigabyte(GB). Therefore the bigger the hard drive, the more it seems like you are losing hard drive space. Detail Answer: Most operating-system tools report capacity using the same abbreviations but actually use binary prefixes. For instance, the prefix mega-, which normally means 106 (1,000,000), in the context of data storage can mean 220 (1,048,576), which is nearly 5% more. Similar usage has been applied to prefixes of greater magnitude. This results in a discrepancy between the disk manufacturer's stated capacity and the apparent capacity of the drive when examined through most operating-system tools. The difference becomes even more noticeable for a gigabyte (7%), and again for a terabyte (9%). For a petabyte there is a 11% difference between the SI (10005) and binary (10245) definitions. For example, Microsoft Windows reports disk capacity both in decimal-based units to 12 or more significant digits and with binary-based units to three significant digits. Thus a disk specified by a disk manufacturer as a 30 GB disk might have its capacity reported by Windows 2000 both as "30,065,098,568 bytes" and "28.0 GB". The disk manufacturer used the SI definition of "giga", 109 to arrive at 30 GB; however, because Microsoft Windows, Mac OS and some Linux distributions use "gigabyte" for 1,073,741,824 bytes (230 bytes), the operating system reports capacity of the disk drive as (only) 28.0 GB. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive Another source to help out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte#Consumer_confusion
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Because ~5% is partitioned off by the manufacturer for the purposes of read/write - as you do not defrag am SSD, this is required to allow the data to be cleaned up within the system This is still a 512 disc, which will actually mean ~500 for use, less ~5% for SSD specific cleanup tasking - unlike "normal" HDDs the 480 noted is the amount you will actually have to access
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I've been using 120gb with another 120gb as extra storage. I therefore think 500gb is ample, especially if you can always get external storage later for backup. I run windows8.1.
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Yes, it should be 4GB. "4 MB" that is a typo. Thanks alerting us to this you have sharp eyes.
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The system memory is soldered to the logic board. It is not user upgrade able. The solid state drive is interchangeable/upgradeable.
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You're not losing all that space to any "formatting", you're just prey to marketing and confusing computer lingo. Hard drive manufacturers dictate a 1GB as 1,000,000,000,000 bytes whereas Windows calculates 1GB it as 1,073,741,824. Technically speaking, windows version of GB really should be referred to as GiB rather than GB. A 500GB hard drive sold by Maxtor/WD/Seagate etc. will show in windows as 465.5 GB. Just as these 8GB cards show as 7.44GB. For simplifying, you can pretty much divide the stated capacity by 1.074 to see what you're actually going to get.
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Just checked one of mine (using a great tool called "Crystal Disk Info". Great Tool, just choose "Custom install" {not express} and opt out of anything else, it's just bogus ads)So the speed says 5400RPM and it says 8Meg of flash (RAM). The actual internal hard drive is: wd10jmvw-11ajgs1 Look it up for more specs on the drive inside. Enjoy!
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My hard disc is showing total space of 214 GB. I bought it as 256 GB. In bytes it is showing a figure of 230 x 6. A bit confusing. Hope this helps.
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My computer has 4GB. I think that the pic is about the software. I beieve that if it says 4GB that's what it is.
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That sounds about right. After I installed my 64gb and OS I had 55gb free. If everything is working okay than you are good.
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Mine has a 500 Gig hard drive. I also have an external usb hard drive (500 gig.) I don't know about upgrading the internal drive.
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Your system might be different, but mine ordered a couple of weeks ago had 4Gb of memory. The hard drive is 500Gb. It's certainly the minimum you would want, but the system is dirt cheap and you can add memory.
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so its not expandable? that sucks. I might call MSi just to double check, because i think thats an important factor in which one I choose....is it a big deal to you? did you notice they also had it listed in one spot as 160gb, and in another it said 120gb. I emailed them to see which for sure(though obviously everywhere else it says 160gb)...don't know why that happens.
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You cant, the drive is a cheap scam. The chip in it tells your computer it has 256gb of storage but in reality it probably has less than 1gb. This scam is successful because most people wont return this and just figure it a loss.
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It's a mistake, it's supposed to be 256 GB , 2 HD of 128 GB each.It's A Good computer, very fast and reliable.
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No storage device is exactly as its labeled. Whether it is a 32/64 or a 16GB device the actually actual amount of space will often be smaller that it is labeled.
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Storage should be in the specs. Best to just check them out. Mine was 256gb solid state drive.