Re: [Avid-L2] Hard drive storage discrepancy...

This has to do with the fact that 1K is actually 1024 bytes, 1MB is actually 1024KB, etc. etc. etc.
so the 1024's multiple to create a substantial difference.

The REALLY annoying thing is that it's not consistently counted that way. Manufacturers like to list drive sizes counting in a manner that makes the drive seem bigger, so they would list your drive as 1.6TB.
The counting method varies across different software and platforms, which ultimately makes the whole matter extremely annoying :) If you want to be absolutely certain that you are being precise about the amount of space used, its best to use bytes.

Happy new year
-N

On Jan 3, 2011, at 7:37 PM, Tom McDonnell wrote:

> I need to rebuild a raid and am getting a discrepancy in used space.
>
> On Windows 7 a drive partition reads used space as:
> 1,193,780,006,912 bytes
> Versus
> 1.08 TB.
>
> Total disc capacity is:
> 1,601,885,433,856 Bytes
> Versus
> 1.45 TB
>
> Which one is the accurate one and why is the TB reading less?
>
> Happy New Year everybody,
> Tom McDonnell
>
>

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