Rozal
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Well I got a brand new Western Digital that's only giving me 149Gb's I have service pack 2 installed.
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New 160GB WD 10G short
- Thread starter Rozal
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- Dec 26, 2004
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Base ten gigabytes does not equal binary gigabytes.
Western Digital says 1GB=1,000,000,000 bytes (as does every HDD maker). As far as the computer is concerned, it's more than that, so to fill 160GB with binary GB it shows as less GB.
In other words, it's perfectly normal. My 160GB Seagate gives me 149GB too.
Western Digital says 1GB=1,000,000,000 bytes (as does every HDD maker). As far as the computer is concerned, it's more than that, so to fill 160GB with binary GB it shows as less GB.
In other words, it's perfectly normal. My 160GB Seagate gives me 149GB too.
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Its advertised as 160gb. But they always have a little * that says 1gb= 1,000,000,000 bytes. But its actually 1,073,741,824 bytes in a gig
