500 gb but actually 465 Could anyone please tell me why the stated memory is not the actual memory for the harddrive?Appearently this is the case for a number of items but why do they state a different compacity? Do they just like to round? 500 gb but actually 465 Could anyone please tell me why the stated memory is not the actual memory for the harddrive?Appearently this is the case for a number of items but why do they state a... » Read More 500 gb but actually 465 Could anyone please tell me why the stated memory is not the actual memory for the harddrive?Appearently this is the case for a number of items but why do they state a different compacity? Do they just like to round? « Show Less
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Thank you very much for this. I always wondered why I lost out on so many gigs!
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The physical sector size of the 2TB drive was (surprisingly) 4096 making it a 4k /Advanced Format Drive. I no longer have the drive to verify my memory on this but that is what my review was about. Formerly Seagate's 2TB external Backup Plus drives were 512 making them compatible with Windows 7 backup and imaging utilities-that's why I say "surprisingly". Since there is no indication of this change on the packaging (even though there is a logo for Advanced Format 4kn-native-and Advanced Format 512e -emulation drives) you would not know it until you bought the drive and tried to use the utilities. If you already bought the drive you can run the command line: Fsutil Fsinfo ntfsinfo x: (where x: is the drive's letter designation) to verify-too little too late, unfortunately! It would be hard to convince me this isn't Seagate's deliberate omission and I think Amazon should have this information listed as well.
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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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well i can answer the first part of the question it has two drive one is main and the other is a back up 750gb for both hard drive, and for the second part idk i can answer it completely but ill give it a try, the hard drive is not original, it uses other hard drive from other brand to save price. i hope i answer your question. ( BY THE WAY IM USING THIS COMPUTER RIGHT NOW LOL!!!)
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geez you all are so ignorant. the actual space is 64GB but a filesystem is needed to keep track of the files on the disk. how else do you expect it to work without a filesystem?
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Well, I suggest using this as a search term on a search website: "why do flash drives have less space than advertised." I won't pretend to know how to answer that fully, but researching more should explain it. Plus the flash drive comes with a program on it, if I remember correctly, which takes up space - I always delete any programs that come with my drives since copying-and-pasting does the same thing for my purposes.It's not a product ripoff though, at least I don't see it as that at all. It's just the nature of flash drives.
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the board has physical room for two of these. the pc originally had 512 that took up half the space . I installed a 1GB in one half. It worked. then I bought this amazon and installed it in the other half when I kept getting virtual memeory prompts again afte a few months. To noeffect, except that the pc shows it as having two GB installed. I de-installed wverything that eats RAM and I still can't go ten minutes past strtup without geting virtual memory message . I check the capacity and it stil shows plenty, under sixty percent in use when the messge pops up.
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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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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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You likely already figured it out by now but for others searching for answers it more likely than not as it should average about 119gb of data. I did have a pny turbo that had 126gb of data but when encountered errors with it the represenative told me 128 drives average between 115-119gb of data so is likely that one was corrupted. . .
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It is genuine. All drives will show reduce size due to the method used when formatting. It has to do with the 1046k of unformated drive to make 1000k when formatted.
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Same here: 750GB x 2. They're also not RAID 0, so you don't have one drive with 1.5TB, but rather a 750GB C: drive and a 750GB D: drive.
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Is it normal, ya sort of :) Not real world results, but it gives you a number for comparison between other devices. Its sort of like car performance and fuel economy results, they are test track and not real world results if that makes any sense. 32gb is the unformatted size, so figure a loss on average of about 74 megabytes (MB) per GB for formatting, basically 32 x 74mb, is about 2.368 gigs, and 2.368 subtracted from 32 = 29.632 but close enough to your 29.71GB number. It may vary slightly on different devices like sticks, drives, etc, depending on what they need for overhead. As far as the speed tests, that really depends on the type of file you are reading or writing. Tiny files in short bursts will give you a different result than reading or writing a 5 or 10gb file. I think the stated 40 mb/s speed is an average of whatever mixture they test on these devices. The chances of hitting that speed is probably not going to happen. What you seem to be averaging is about 1 meg a second write and 2 megs a second read speed, so a 10 meg file would take 10 seconds to write and 5 seconds to read with the data that you used for testing. Hopefully that helps.
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Sorry Rissa, not really sure on that. I just know 64GB is huge, probly bigger storage than any of us ever need, ha. I HaVe just sold this though & will be removing it. Thanks for contact tho, cheers:)
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the drive limit is 2TB per drive. which considering theyre still making this item you would think they would put out a firmware update if nothing else. im hoping that if they make a new generation f this product that they not only put all the usb ports on one side, but also make them... oh gee i dunno.... a usb port speed that was invented in the current decade, and support for drives larger than 2TB would be a nice addition as well.their support team told me to get my 4 3TB drives to work on it that i shoudl format them and make just a 2TB partition and just ignore the rest of my space, oh, and of course ignore the fact that i just deleted 12TB of data the drive limit is 2TB per drive. which considering theyre still making this item you would think they would put out a firmware update if nothing else. im hoping that if they make a new generation f this product that they not only put all the usb ports on one side, but also make them... oh gee i dunno.... a usb port speed that was invented in the current decade, and support for drives larger than 2TB would be a nice addition as well.their support team told me to get my 4 3TB drives to work on it that i shoudl format them and make just a 2TB partition and just ignore the rest of... » Read More the drive limit is 2TB per drive. which considering theyre still making this item you would think they would put out a firmware update if nothing else. im hoping that if they make a new generation f this product that they not only put all the usb ports on one side, but also make them... oh gee i dunno.... a usb port speed that was invented in the current decade, and support for drives larger than 2TB would be a nice addition as well.their support team told me to get my 4 3TB drives to work on it that i shoudl format them and make just a 2TB partition and just ignore the rest of my space, oh, and of course ignore the fact that i just deleted 12TB of data « Show Less
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I'm the one that answered your question about the different sizes of storage system....my answer was rather long. Anyway, forgot to give u my email address if u have further questions. It is kevtam07@yahoo.com
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You know very well what he meant. He's asking how much does it REALLY hold. For example, a 512 mb flash drive really only holds 485 mb (after formatting and such)