500 gb but actually 465: Could anyone please tell me why the stated memory is not the actual memory for the harddrive?
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Simple Answer: To sum it up the detail answer. Companies use SI units to compute their hard drive size, 500 gigabyte is 500,000,000,000, while the computer itself uses binary to compute hard drive size, 500 gigabyte is 536,870,912,000. So if you do the math, 1 - ( 500,000,000,000 / 536,870,912,000) = 7% difference. So 500 - ( 500 * 7%(0.07) ) = 465. So the actual hard drive size would be 465 gigabyte(GB). Therefore the bigger the hard drive, the more it seems like you are losing hard drive space. Detail Answer: Most operating-system tools report capacity using the same abbreviations but actually use binary prefixes. For instance, the prefix mega-, which normally means 106 (1,000,000), in the context of data storage can mean 220 (1,048,576), which is nearly 5% more. Similar usage has been applied to prefixes of greater magnitude. This results in a discrepancy between the disk manufacturer's stated capacity and the apparent capacity of the drive when examined through most operating-system tools. The difference becomes even more noticeable for a gigabyte (7%), and again for a terabyte (9%). For a petabyte there is a 11% difference between the SI (10005) and binary (10245) definitions. For example, Microsoft Windows reports disk capacity both in decimal-based units to 12 or more significant digits and with binary-based units to three significant digits. Thus a disk specified by a disk manufacturer as a 30 GB disk might have its capacity reported by Windows 2000 both as "30,065,098,568 bytes" and "28.0 GB". The disk manufacturer used the SI definition of "giga", 109 to arrive at 30 GB; however, because Microsoft Windows, Mac OS and some Linux distributions use "gigabyte" for 1,073,741,824 bytes (230 bytes), the operating system reports capacity of the disk drive as (only) 28.0 GB. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive Another source to help out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte#Consumer_confusion
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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
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There is a difference between how drive manufacturers specify 32GB and how Windows specifies GB. Every storage device will specify more GB and Windows will always say less due to these differences. Not going to detail them out, as the math makes my head hurt. :P
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There seem to be several different configurations out there. Mine has 2 GB of data storage. Other respondents have other memory sizes. My guess is that the .5 GB is max data storage... but that is a guess. Mine also has an SD slot, but that's not mentioned in the specs here. Sorry not to be more precise.
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It is a 500gb hard drive but after the operating system and such it is a 362gb hard drive to play with.
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I've tried 32 Gb and it works, and I've read, and the comments below say 64 Gb works too.
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Mine has a 500 Gig hard drive. I also have an external usb hard drive (500 gig.) I don't know about upgrading the internal drive.
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Your system might be different, but mine ordered a couple of weeks ago had 4Gb of memory. The hard drive is 500Gb. It's certainly the minimum you would want, but the system is dirt cheap and you can add memory.
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No storage device is exactly as its labeled. Whether it is a 32/64 or a 16GB device the actually actual amount of space will often be smaller that it is labeled.
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Hi, Max supported RAM is 16GB. We have no data on the HDD aspect. Thanks, PCrush
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I too just purchased this new and put in a brand new laptop , and only shows 29.27 gb freespace, almost 3gb less than advertised. It does say on the packaging that "a certain portion of capacity may be used for system files and maintenance, thus the actual capacity may differ from that indicated on the product label". So I'm assuming all is well with mine.
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It's because those are 1000MB Gigabytes instead of the 1024MB Gibibytes Windows use to measure the size, Those can also be called Gigabytes, hence the confusion. If you plug it on a mac it will say it's 30GB, but the file sizes will also seem bigger so no additional data can be stored
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I just connected a 500GB (WD500AADS, ASIN: B002P3KO4C search it on Amazon) drive using a sata to USB connector (ASIN: B000J01I1G search it on Amazon). I had to use the tuner to format (fat32), and it shows up as a 465GB drive. I hit the PVR button, and recorded a sample, no problem. I imagine the pre-packaged drives would work the same.
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I'm an end user so I have no idea. I think the vendor's website has the correct correspondence of machine to memory. It not, try Googling the memory for that machine.
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It shows up as two physical drives 0 and 1 at 1 TB ea, further partitioned into 500 GB ea C-D-E-F. Haven't pulled it apart to see if in fact they are separate drives. 100% screaming machine but the drives are probably 75% screaming.
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Storage should be in the specs. Best to just check them out. Mine was 256gb solid state drive.
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1+4GB, this is MTK chipset, some storage for OS and APP used, show the storage capacity is less, please noted