1TB of HDD space missing completely

Maybe I was mistaken and I actually have only 1 TB. I would still be missing 70 GB, what could the reason for that be?

R3B3LCAUSE said:

Maybe I was mistaken and I actually have only 1 TB. I would still be missing 70 GB, what could the reason for that be?

That's normal; drives typically have a formatted capacity of about 93% of their advertised capacity.

ignatzatsonic said:

That's normal; drives typically have a formatted capacity of about 93% of their advertised capacity.

How can they advertise more than they actually sell you? What is the other 7%?

R3B3LCAUSE said:

ignatzatsonic said:

That's normal; drives typically have a formatted capacity of about 93% of their advertised capacity.

How can they advertise more than they actually sell you? What is the other 7%?

Here's 846,000 Google hits explaining it.

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...pe=&as_rights=

Generally--there are 2 ways of measuring capacity and guess what? The HD manufacturers use the method that gives the largest number. Shocking, I tell you, shocking.