Post by: Bomb Bloke on April 05, 2010, 06:05:00 PM
This equals about 1862 "real" gigabytes.
948,965 megabytes = about 925 gigabytes, meaning that your F+G partitions total around 1851gb. Note that you also have three cache partitions (X, Y and Z), which account for 750mb each. So all the math about checks out.
This difference between what driver maker's advertise and what the OS sees will only get more and more pronounced as drive sizes increase.
I recommend you double check that the right cluster size got used on your F/G partitions. Using the EvoX dash, note the free space on them, then copy a single file over to each (10kb or less). The difference in free space, divided by 1024, is the cluster size.
Post by: dballs442 on April 05, 2010, 10:04:00 PM
Post by: Heimdall on April 06, 2010, 12:34:00 AM
Post by: dballs442 on April 08, 2010, 01:49:00 AM
and with larger clusters there will be more unused or un-utilized space (especially with many small files like in games and such). it wont add to how large or small the partitions look. however allocating out a hard drive (or formatting rather) does decrease the "size" of the partitions. for instance i buy a 2 gig micro sd card, it reads 1.82 gigs, i format it for my phone and it only reads 1.78 (or whatever).
Post by: lordvader129 on April 11, 2010, 12:04:00 PM
QUOTE(Bomb Bloke @ Apr 5 2010, 05:05 PM) 
Two "manufacturer's" terabytes = 2,000,000,000,000 bytes.
This equals about 1862 "real" gigabytes.
948,965 megabytes = about 925 gigabytes, meaning that your F+G partitions total around 1851gb. Note that you also have three cache partitions (X, Y and Z), which account for 750mb each. So all the math about checks out.
This difference between what driver maker's advertise and what the OS sees will only get more and more pronounced as drive sizes increase.
I recommend you double check that the right cluster size got used on your F/G partitions. Using the EvoX dash, note the free space on them, then copy a single file over to each (10kb or less). The difference in free space, divided by 1024, is the cluster size.
eh, its technically the computers that are wrong, "giga" does mean 1,000,000,000, lol
theres been some push to use a different prefix, "gibi" to mean 1,073,741,824 (1024*1024*1024) and the associated terms for thje other sizes are kibi, mebi, gibi and tebi
its a confusing system to the uninitiated to say the least
Post by: Bomb Bloke on April 11, 2010, 07:06:00 PM
I know SI might have logic on their side here, but you don't mess with tradition!!
