You aint getting what you paid for.

[viranimus]

I was thinking today. I have bought a lot of hard drives over the years, but I cannot honestly remember a drive I bought, that actually had the capacity it was supposed to have. From my first "15 gb" hard drive that only had 13gb of space, to my current "500 gb WD black drive that only has 465 gb of capacity.

So the question is.. How much space total does your hard drive have, and how much space was it supposed to have?

 

[Macgyvercas]

I don't know why they do that. I think some of the space is reserved for something and they include that in the number, because honestly, 40 is a much better number than 36.

 

[olendvcook]

my hard drives are supposed to be 500GB also but are only 465GB also

 

[viranimus]

I figure it gets lost in the 1024 division from kb/mb/gb.. but seems shady to cut it off just because its 500,000,000,000 bytes.. should be a larger number of bytes in order to be 500 gb of practial usage.

 

[The Austin]

I have no idea. My 15GB only had 13 on it, and now I desperately need the extra room.

 

[Odbarc]

I have a total of 10MB lost between my two hard-drives.

 

[trickyfingers]

It's always been that way.

http://www.lockergnome.com/windows/2004/09/24/why-isnt-the-space-on-my-hard-drive-what-was-advertised/

 

[fuhier]

Friends ipod 80gigs. Holds 18. Apple told him to go fuck himself

 

[drunkirishman]

he was clearly using the hard drive wrong...