 Microsoft, HDD Space |
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  Jul 25 2005, 02:02 AM
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Newbie [Level 3]  Group: Members Posts: 49 Joined: 25-July 05 Member No.: 9,821  |
Well time for a little "venting" I think ... something that is really annoying me at the moment is the fact that just the other day I bought a new Hard Disk Drive (HDD). I spent $105 Australian $ on an 80GB drive ... only to install and format to get 74.53GB ... I think it is stupid that they remove 5 1/2GB of Disk Space. It really annoys me when companys feel and do get away with things like this.
I didnt spend that amount of money to get a 74.53GB HDD ... I spent that amount to get a 80GB HDD. Microsoft "Blah" to you. |
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Jul 25 2005, 02:52 AM
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Trap Grand Marshal Member Group: Members Posts: 1,182 Joined: 24-September 04 Member No.: 1,245 |
it just because there is a different count way by microsoft and hdd company.
by microsoft 1024K=1M by hdd company 1000K=1M then of course: 1024M=1G by microsoft 1000M= 1G by hdd company so there is the problem with you. nothing worried about that. Guangdian |
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Jul 25 2005, 03:05 AM
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Privileged Member Group: Members Posts: 675 Joined: 11-September 04 Member No.: 1,079 |
Yeh I know that microsoft takes some mbs or gbs away from your harddrive. It does that to me all the time when I format the harddrive and the space is taken away.
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Jul 25 2005, 03:12 AM
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Moderator Group: Members Posts: 2,325 Joined: 8-March 05 From: Mawson, Antarctica Member No.: 4,254 |
I know what you mean. The amount of space advertised is not always true. After buying two computers with "80 GB", they all came with around 5 gigs less. I have no idea why, but my best guess is backup issues. :-/
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Jul 25 2005, 04:04 AM
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Mankie Group: Members Posts: 763 Joined: 22-July 05 From: New Delhi, India Member No.: 9,746 myCENT:ZERO |
QUOTE(guangdian @ Jul 25 2005, 08:22 AM) it just because there is a different count way by microsoft and hdd company. by microsoft 1024K=1M by hdd company 1000K=1M then of course: 1024M=1G by microsoft 1000M= 1G by hdd company so there is the problem with you. nothing worried about that. Guangdian  seems to me that you are correct...but if this is true then the hdd companies are not correct because it is always 1024 mb = 1gb not 100 mb = i gb |
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Jul 25 2005, 05:11 AM
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$p4m 0n j00 $h4m3 m3 0nc3 $p4m 0n m3 $h4m3 m3 7\/\/1c3 Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 6,798 Joined: 21-September 04 From: 9r33|\| 399$ 4|\|D 5P4/\/\ Member No.: 1,218  myCENT:READY[102.80] |
well it is pretty obvious why you come with less disk space, how do you think the os is running, the amount of disk space taken is used to run the computer and all the files and what not to run the programs needed to use the computer.
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Jul 25 2005, 08:22 AM
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apt-get moo  Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 2,237 Joined: 28-May 05 From: Devon, England Member No.: 7,593  myCENT:20.88 |
This happens with all HDDs. The company that makes them and the company selling them, whether that be on their own or part of a computer package, use a 'metric' system of 1000MB to equal 1GB. Microsoft actually do something right for once and use the value of 1024MB to equal 1GB. Therefore you will lose 24MB for every GB on the hard drive. Also, once you format it a file allocation table is added, which can take up a huge amount of space.
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Jul 25 2005, 03:29 PM
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Moderator Group: Members Posts: 2,325 Joined: 8-March 05 From: Mawson, Antarctica Member No.: 4,254 |
QUOTE(rvalkass @ Jul 25 2005, 05:22 AM) This happens with all HDDs. The company that makes them and the company selling them, whether that be on their own or part of a computer package, use a 'metric' system of 1000MB to equal 1GB. Microsoft actually do something right for once and use the value of 1024MB to equal 1GB. Therefore you will lose 24MB for every GB on the hard drive. Also, once you format it a file allocation table is added, which can take up a huge amount of space. Umm...how exactly does a hard drive lose 24 MB?? That doesn't make any sense at all since you said that 1024 MB is equal to 1 GB.
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Aug 3 2005, 01:01 PM
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Privileged Member Group: Members Posts: 661 Joined: 18-April 05 Member No.: 5,852 |
What you guys are saying is true but do not forget Windows takes up alot of space. My Windows takes up about 2.18 gigabytes.
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