Hard drive missing space?
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It's normal. Doesn't matter what size hard drive it is,it will always have less. I believe it's due to Files that the manufacturer puts on them but I could be wrong about that.
Hard drive missing space?
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The normal size of a 1tb drive is 931 gigs.
There are no hidden files. That's simply the true size that can be used.
Hard drive missing space?
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No... and yes.
Storage is advertised in metric GB. So, when a hard drive is 1TB, it's 10^12 = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. But file managers traditionally list sizes in BINARY units, not metric. A...
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It depends on whose terabyte you're asking about.
Hard drive manufacturers use the SI-friendly definition for the prefixes: a kilobyte is 1000 bytes, a megabyte is 1000 kilobytes, etc. By this...
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I recently bought a WD hard drive that was 1tb to replace my old seagate that was 350gb.
Now I am installing windows on it and it says 953860mb. Is this normal?
Isn't a TB 1048576mb?
I am...
