Tingsters Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 Hi,I hav question in XP regarding the SATA HDD!. I Juz Brought a Samsung 200GB of SATA HDD. Which has 8meg. So i should get 192GB RITE?. But then XP detect onli 186GB?? only??? then how abt the 6GB of free space??? i dun how.. can someone advise mi on these issue?? or anyone has this problem before onn the sata.. Tks.. rGds.. CheersTing.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmX.Memnoch Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 It all depends on who is doing the counting. Windows XP uses the proper 1GB = 1024MB method. However, most drive manufacturers use the improper 1GB = 1000MB method.I have two WD "250GB" drives in my system which WinXP says are 232GB drives...which comes out to 249,990,901,760 bytes. Divide that out using the drive manufacturers way and you'll get ~250GB. Divide that out using the proper way and you'll get ~232GB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tingsters Posted September 27, 2005 Author Share Posted September 27, 2005 Oic.. OkIe.. Can explain more on the Manufacturers way? how should i do it? divde them using which program??? cos i got the hdd only? No Drivers or install program is given. tat y. it is OEM. so can u tell mi how do to make manufacturers way? can Gulide mi pLs... Tks AloTs best RgdsTing.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmX.Memnoch Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 What I meant by "divide" is actually divide the numbers out...as in with a calculator. I'll use my 250GB drive as an example:Right Way249,990,901,760 bytes / 1024 = 244,131,740 Kbytes244,131,740 Kbytes / 1024 = 238409.9 MBytes238409.9 MBytes / 1024 = 232.8 Gbytes"Wrong" Way (Which most drive manufacturers use)249,990,901,760 / 1000 = 249990901.76 KBytes249990901.76 KBytes / 1000 = 249990.9 MBytes249990.9 Mbytes / 1000 = 249.99 GBytesDoes that make more sense? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benners Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 Manufacturers also quote the drives capacity unformatted, so you will lose some space when formatting of partitioning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naturekid Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 (edited) Hi there,the manufacurers count the correct way 8bits = 1byte / 1024byte = 1KB / 1024kb = 1MB / 1024MB = 1GB (corrected!)The reason why a 250GB HDD does not show 250GB under ANY operating systemis, because some of the drive space is reserved for the internal hardrive bad sector recovery.Sectors get faulty in a drive and you will never notice, because it has a self healing feature that grips by itself. That´s the reason you´ll never get thewhole space a drive claims to have, though it really has it.Cheers Edited September 27, 2005 by naturekid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmX.Memnoch Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 (edited) 1024byte = 1MB8 bit = 1 byte1024 bytes = 1KB1024KB = 1MB1024MB = 1GBhttp://www.webopedia.com/TERM/B/byte.htmlhttp://www.webopedia.com/TERM/k/kilobyte.htmlhttp://www.webopedia.com/TERM/m/megabyte.htmlhttp://www.webopedia.com/TERM/g/gigabyte.htmlNewtork transfer rates and drive capacities aren't a direct translation to each other. Edited September 27, 2005 by nmX.Memnoch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andromeda43 Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 Tingsters,Don't worry about it. Your computer and Windows is handling it the correct way. Just enjoy the speed that the new SATA drive is giving you. I find that my own SATA drive is about ten times (10X) faster than my old IDE drive. Enjoy!Andromeda43 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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