topic Missing drive space in PCs & Accessories

Missing drive space

glennsimo — Fri, 12 Mar 2004 22:19:46 GMT

Just bought an RS406 with what is supposedly a 160 GB hard drive. When I checked, it was only 147 and that includes the space used for the pre installed software. Has anyone else got the same problem?

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robpaxton — Fri, 12 Mar 2004 22:46:40 GMT

It's not a problem - some space is taken by the directory structure, some by the allocation tables. Also hard drive makers have their own definition of a gigabyte.

What you can see is perfectly normal.

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glennsimo — Sat, 13 Mar 2004 05:19:22 GMT

Sorry Rob I dont see that as being perfectly normal, what you see is obviously not what you get. The PC I replaced did what it said on the tin. They are obviously a bit more honest than Sony about what's available when you buy their products.

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robpaxton — Sat, 13 Mar 2004 08:23:54 GMT

It's not just Sony, all PC manufacturers give the raw unformatted hard disk capacity - and the hard disk capacity is given to them by the hard drive makers. It was less noticable with smaller drives.

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kee-lo_ — Sat, 13 Mar 2004 13:58:13 GMT

LOL Rob's right, it's the hard disk manufactur's view of what a gigabyte is.
You're missing no space.

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glennsimo — Sat, 13 Mar 2004 14:23:04 GMT

Fair enough, your right the disc was much smaller on the other PC. Doesn't stop you getting p****d though. However I am impressed by the machine itself, it is quality.

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stevep-4 — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 11:06:52 GMT

1.44mb floppies are actually about 2.1mb before they are formatted. Probably the same applies to hard drives

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marcdekker — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 20:33:02 GMT

Just to hook in on the topic...
Just to be informative...
HDD Firms sell HDD's in an other specification than what you think in.
They release a HDD based on 1 MB = 1000 KB
But in our topology 1 MB = 1024 KB

Make a sum:
147 * 1024 * 1024 = 154140672 KB
(HDD Size * 1024 * 1024 = TOTAl KB)
Give or take some size falls away by formatting
(my 60 GB is actually => 55,8 GB)

Conclusion...it is perfectly normal that the size of your HDD is actually smaller.

Regards,
MD

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chuckalicious — Wed, 17 Mar 2004 14:21:08 GMT

Bingo
I think you'd be hard pushed to fill 147Gb legally anyway

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tellingd — Thu, 18 Mar 2004 12:40:39 GMT

That's a fair point

Of course, he may be a freelance video cameraman

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Philipljones — Tue, 23 Mar 2004 16:01:27 GMT

I have 8 hours of raw DV footage from a round the world trip. at about 12 gbyte per hour of video, im at 100 gbytes already. add to that, the edited versions, and adobe premiere rendering files, Ive found that 160 gbytes is filling up quickly. Ive added a second 160 gbyte drive just for the editing work.

and I haven't done anything illegal!!! :smileyrolling_eyes:

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kee-lo_ — Tue, 23 Mar 2004 16:39:50 GMT

Cool sounds like a good project.
That should take up a few DVDs

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Philipljones — Tue, 23 Mar 2004 18:00:40 GMT

by the time Ive edited it down, it comes out at about 2 1/2 hours, about 2 and a bit DVD's. I'll also make a quick motage of the whole trip to last 10 - 12 minutes, to fill up the third DVD.

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kee-lo_ — Tue, 23 Mar 2004 19:00:30 GMT

Sounds like it took a long time to edit this film.

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Philipljones — Tue, 23 Mar 2004 23:17:22 GMT

it took around 10 hours per hour, plus rendering to mpeg, plus DVD creation. lots of time, yes, but a labour of love.