When you put this in a Windows disk drive, how many actual GB does it show? As long as I have 8.15 gb im fine.
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Any DL disc says they have 8.5 gb but in reality all DL discs have 7.96 free space no matter the brand,
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When selected in "My Computer" it only shows 7.96 GB free. Apparently you'll need to utilize some sort of file compression or leave something out.
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put the blank disc into the drive. right click on the drive's icon. Then left click on "Properties". this should then display the total disc space, and also how much, if any, is not available due to formatting allocation etc. or, just try to copy an 8.15 gb file to the dvd-dl blank disc and see what the heck happens. worst case, you make a coaster out of it, best case it accepts it all. good luck!
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I just connected a 500GB (WD500AADS, ASIN: B002P3KO4C search it on Amazon) drive using a sata to USB connector (ASIN: B000J01I1G search it on Amazon). I had to use the tuner to format (fat32), and it shows up as a 465GB drive. I hit the PVR button, and recorded a sample, no problem. I imagine the pre-packaged drives would work the same.
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I have no idea what Win 8.1 says about this SD card, but I can tell you Win 7 reads it as a 8GB card. Of course, all SD cards have a portion reserved for the bits that make it possible for the card to communicate with the computer and vice versa, so the card will not show the full 8GB as free for use. Possibly 8.1 is reading it as 7.1 GB, and someone mistakenly saw that as 71 MB. Otherwise, there is no way to explain the vast differences.
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I cannot comment on the WD software disabling this if it gives you what you are talking about. But if you search your favorite site you'll find links to the HP USB Disk Storage Format tool so you can wipe out the entire drive. If I check properties in Windows, it says my drive when blank now is 465GB (500,079,493,120 bytes). I figure that is about as close to 500GB you are going to get.
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Depends on what definition you use, but it's 96GB--I've had it for more than a year and there's still room on the drive
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I believe that is probably because of all the preloaded things which take up some of that space. So when it says 8gbs it's including that as part of it. So in actuality you have 6.71gbs.
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For 64GB model I have, 30GB left after win8 updates. 9GB hidden recovery partitions. Totally physical space is 58GB.
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Yes, it works great with Windows 7. I use that system in my computer and have had no issues with the drive. As for the size, I do believe that 500GB is the max. I am not sure what causes the limit, but 500GB is as high as it goes.
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this is one drive and stores 64 gigs. hope you have better luck than i did. I used it to store anime episodes and after about the first 10 episodes it would say corrupted data from there on. also did the same with anything else i put on it and i dont have that problem with other drives
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Hi John. The one I purchased was a 4 GB and that equates to about 3.75 GB of actual space to load music. There is programing in the drive so you lose a few MBs off that. I do like mine a lot and it is really so compact and easy to use; nothing to mess with, just load and play. I hope this helps. Mick
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In file explorer the C: drive is displayed to have 97.4 GB total hard drive space. Overall I recommend this laptop, I've owned it for about a year and use it for IT studies and general use.
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When I check properties, it says capacity 104GB, as for me im using 62.5GB including windows at the moment.I bought 64GB memory card to have extra space.
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After installing the drive in my ps4, there is 862gb of usable space. Hope that helps.
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My computer running Windows 7 Ultimate reports Capacity 31,005,667,328 bytes 28.8 GB. Hope that helps. Extremely fast by the way.
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I see the 8 GB HD part on the Summary, but it comes with a 16 GB HD at a minimum. I think it is just a typo in the Summary part. It depends on what selection you make for the HD as to whether it is 16 or 32 GB though. I've got the 32 GB with music, movies, magazines, photos, and books on it and I've still got plenty of disk space left. Hope this helped.
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I'm in the process of doing this exact upgrade, except up to 480 GB. Using Macrium Reflect Free, I was able to clone the drive, swap it into the Series 9, and the computer is acting perfectly. It worked. The problem is that even though it's a 480 GB drive, windows just shows it as the same size as old one, with 300GB of "unallocated" space that I can't figure out how to make accessible. If you figure it out, please let me know how you did it! My thread is one of the other Q & A threads on this same product.
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There is a difference between how drive manufacturers specify 32GB and how Windows specifies GB. Every storage device will specify more GB and Windows will always say less due to these differences. Not going to detail them out, as the math makes my head hurt. :P