09-21-2003, 06:10 AM
Nah, it's not anything to do with formatting... look at the box, or the manual in it, if there is one. Usually you'll find something like 120GB*, and next to the * at the bottom, "1000MB = 1GB".
It's just the convention they've always used, but until now, there's never been such a huge, noticeable difference between advertised space and actual space. Those missing 10 gigs could be holding a lot of stuff.
Oh, and regarding the space taken in a format, that's only a major issue with FAT or FAT32. NTFS uses the MFT.... I have two drives, a 40 and a 100 GB, the MFT size is 52MB and 42 MB respectively... that's not much.
(Find your MFT size by right-clicking My Computer, Manage, go into Disk Defragmenter, hit Analyze, then View Report. If you care. Probably not. :grin2: )
It's just the convention they've always used, but until now, there's never been such a huge, noticeable difference between advertised space and actual space. Those missing 10 gigs could be holding a lot of stuff.
Oh, and regarding the space taken in a format, that's only a major issue with FAT or FAT32. NTFS uses the MFT.... I have two drives, a 40 and a 100 GB, the MFT size is 52MB and 42 MB respectively... that's not much.
(Find your MFT size by right-clicking My Computer, Manage, go into Disk Defragmenter, hit Analyze, then View Report. If you care. Probably not. :grin2: )
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