The title says "500GB Hard Drive". Why does the info about it say 320GB"?
1377314
I do not why it says that but don't worry it is a 500GB hard drive. I have one myself.
1377315
This could be a question for Dell rather than me but I've never got anywhere near the 320Gb anyway. I have a feeling it could be a total of 500 but split in some way with a backup of 180?
206594
The 20GB SSD is a cache for the 500GB hard drive. It's supposed to help speed up boot times and access speed
77113
Because ~5% is partitioned off by the manufacturer for the purposes of read/write - as you do not defrag am SSD, this is required to allow the data to be cleaned up within the system This is still a 512 disc, which will actually mean ~500 for use, less ~5% for SSD specific cleanup tasking - unlike "normal" HDDs the 480 noted is the amount you will actually have to access
1689517
According to the box the max is 1TB drive. I have 500gb drives in the 2 I got the drives are a tight fit
1809856
The super slim system that I bought was only 12GB. The was no "drive" to remove. You opened it up, put your hard drive in the bracket, slide the bracket and hard drive in the opening and that is it. That 12GB is never used by the system again. Why....I have no idea.
1386541
You cant, the drive is a cheap scam. The chip in it tells your computer it has 256gb of storage but in reality it probably has less than 1gb. This scam is successful because most people wont return this and just figure it a loss.
2048984
I am not sure of a 500GB as I don't have one that size to test, but I have used an old 40GB IDE WD drive and it worked fine.
1562589
yes its a typo lolit should read 512 gb not 512 mb lol.now wouldnt that be just sad if it was lol
656873
IF you are leaving the HD attached to the system all the time, it is quite possible that you are saving all incoming data/media to the Seagate. The easiest way to check this out is by going to FileManager and then checking the contents of the Seagate. Even if it is full, it doesnt matter- Just select all (using the Shift the the Up/Down Arrows) and copy/paste it in the 'C' of Computer. That should free up almost 490 of the 500GB- as a few basic programs given by Seagate will remain. All the best.
1603979
Yes, it realy is 500GB. It is this capacity because it uses that extra space for additional wear leveling. This is known as over provisioning. The extra space needed for over provisioning on this drive is necessary because it is triple level cell technology. Because of this, the flash actually has less endurance than the generation before it. With the proper wear leveling though, this is compensated for, and the drive is designed to last for quite some time. If you are a heavy user (meaning professional video editing, or any other use case where you are writing more than 10GB a day everyday), you should get the pro line anyway, as that is still multi level cell, and has greater endurance. But if you do that kind of heavy work, you should probably be getting an enterprise grade drive anyway with single level cell technology. So yes, this drive is genuine and it is fantastic. It is actually close to one of the fastest drives on the market, and the only that I know of that is optimized for larger capacities. Most other brands (particularly LSISandforce drives) are designed to be fastest at ~256GB, so if you want a large drive that doesn't suffer because of it's size, this is it. Edit: BTW, there are some non-insightful posts below claiming this is because it is what you get after formatting. Know that formatting will always use some of the storage and you will end up with slightly less. But in this case, it will be actually lower than the 500GB as 500GB is what it would be raw, not after formatting. My 250GB Sansung 840 came out to about 233GB. This is also partially because, for whatever reason, the solid state world measures in Gibibytes (GiB) or 1000MiB, while the rest of the storage/computer world (except for the silly apple world) measures in Gigabytes(GB) of 1024MB.
683759
320 or 500 GB is the size of Hard Disk Drive (HDD) not the size of RAM. 4 GB RAM is good enough for a Notepad. High End Notepad may have max 8 or 16 GB of RAM.
1952095
I think it was 3320GB, didn't last long though. Powers on no boot after three months. It's also out of warranty. Get one with it!
1648341
I'm having a problem with a 3TB drive... shows up as 2.2TB and 800GB. Refer to http://www.pcworld.com/article/235088/everything_you_need_to_know_about_3TB_hard_drives.html
1202306
i don't know and don't care about the image. The title and the description is correct. It 's a 480 GB msata.
342076
The web site says it has a 500 GB hard drive. I own the H264 digital recorder.
2283590
You know that is a excellent question. All the specs on different websites say it has a 500Gb HDD with a 32GB SSD hybrid. Although when I search through my system properties I do not see the 32GB partition listed. Do you know exactly how I would know? I would think that the model numbers specs would be universal.
525031
I thought description said 160 gig, but it shows 298 gig capacity when I open up system. I'm assuming it has a 300 gig drive. Excellent system so far..