Topic: I Thought They Were 10 Gb's? (Read 199 times)

The Fiend · « **on:** February 11, 2005, 09:24:00 PM »

How come the stock HDD's are said to have 10 GB's but you can only use roughly 4? I get like 2.76GB on E:\ and only like 2.45GB on F:\.... where is the other 6 gigs at?

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xtremexmods · « **Reply #1 on:** February 12, 2005, 12:14:00 AM »

First it is not a true 10 gigs. 2nd the msdash and other stuff take up some space also so however you look at it you will never get a full 10gigs from an xbox hdd.

The Fiend · « **Reply #2 on:** February 12, 2005, 12:50:00 AM »

fuck MS.... i say they should take their xbox and stick it up their ass...

lol, yea i understand. oh well, looks like i'm gonna have to make a trip to compusa and snag a larger drive again.

The Fiend

Tobb555 · « **Reply #3 on:** February 12, 2005, 01:01:00 AM »

QUOTE

fuck MS.... i say they should take their xbox and stick it up their ass...

lol, yea i understand. oh well, looks like i'm gonna have to make a trip to compusa and snag a larger drive again.

The Fiend

Hey retard why are you bashing MSFT when you own one of there product. Doesnt make much sense does it.

rav3n2k · « **Reply #4 on:** February 12, 2005, 01:17:00 AM »

The xBox HDD is 8GB, at least last time I checked. Don't diss it though, I mean, PS2 doesn't even have one at all (except an external USB one, more $$) Stop bashing their product, when you can go out and replace it with another one.

FallsInc · « **Reply #5 on:** February 12, 2005, 01:20:00 AM »

here is the layout

C 500mb
E 5.7gb (or around there)
F blank
X 700mb
Y 700mb
Z 700mb

F is blank by default, and is about 2 gb

you just have a bunch of shit on E is the reason.

amicold · « **Reply #6 on:** February 12, 2005, 01:21:00 AM »

All harddrives are less than there stated size when formatted. Don't bash. My 160 gig has only 152 gigs formatted and thats a storage drive not an OS.

jameswalter · « **Reply #7 on:** February 12, 2005, 01:31:00 AM »

QUOTE(amicold @ Feb 11 2005, 11:27 PM)

All harddrives are less than there stated size when formatted. Don't bash. My 160 gig has only 152 gigs formatted and thats a storage drive not an OS.

FallsInc · « **Reply #8 on:** February 12, 2005, 01:41:00 AM »

its got to do with the binary to decimal conversion

1024mb=1gb
1000mb=1gb

1024/=1000

so they sell HDs in decimal and you format them and read them in binary, accounting for a loss of 2.34375% per gb... i think... i just did this off the top of my head, and the numbers seem right.

The Fiend · « **Reply #9 on:** February 15, 2005, 09:23:00 PM »

well x y and z have almost 800MB, e is completely empty and only has 2874MB and F has 2546MB these are the corrected values... i just went on Avalaunch's file manager to confirm.

lordvader129 · « **Reply #10 on:** February 15, 2005, 09:47:00 PM »

QUOTE(The Fiend @ Feb 15 2005, 09:29 PM)

well x y and z have almost 800MB, e is completely empty and only has 2874MB and F has 2546MB these are the corrected values... i just went on Avalaunch's file manager to confirm.

ratpoison · « **Reply #11 on:** February 15, 2005, 10:31:00 PM »

QUOTE(rav3n2k @ Feb 12 2005, 08:23 AM)

The xBox HDD is 8GB, at least last time I checked. Don't diss it though, I mean, PS2 doesn't even have one at all (except an external USB one, more $$) Stop bashing their product, when you can go out and replace it with another one.

ratpoison · « **Reply #12 on:** February 15, 2005, 10:34:00 PM »

QUOTE(jameswalter @ Feb 12 2005, 08:37 AM)

Its not because its formatted. Read the drive carefully...they say 160Gb but mean 160,000,000,000 bytes....which equals about 150Gb.

dIsEaSe · « **Reply #13 on:** February 15, 2005, 10:39:00 PM »

199.99 is way too much for a 160

But does anyone really care whether they get a true 160gb or not much less @ 152.5 gb?

FallsInc · « **Reply #14 on:** February 15, 2005, 11:27:00 PM »

well, use the ftp in ava to copy the C and E folders to the PC, and F is there is anything on it, and use slayers to format the HD, and use the slayers ftp to copy the data back to the HD

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