Messed Up PS3

But it shows *47*/55. I have to be at least missing 8GB then.playstation_wii

Yes, it okay. The same thing happens when you buy hard drives. They advertise the amount of GB using a different system measuring bytes (1000 bytes in a KB instead of 1024 bytes in KB). You could technically call that false advertising, but I know on the box of HDD you buy at the store it says somewhere on the box (usually in tiny print) that that is how they are measuring in. Sneaky devils aren't they? :P

As for the 47gb thing, sometimes games store stuff on the PS3 and sometimes other stuff just takes up space on it. It's normal. If you got another one it be exactly the same way.clsnbrdr616

Sneaky indeed. My 360 promised 20gb, yet I only got something like 12gb.

But it shows *47*/55. I have to be at least missing 8GB then.playstation_wii

This is normal- as mentioned before they measured the space of the unformatted drive at 1000 MB/ Gig instead of the proper 1024. That brings down the actual size to 55 GB after formatting. System data takes up a part of that space as well, giving us 47 GB to actually use overall. This same thing happens when buying computers- they always quote the space using the unformated capacity but actual usable space is lower. Relax and enjoy the system.

60 GB is the calculated size of the hard drive based on the sectors of the internal disks. Just like in Windows, the way that the drive is formatted causes the actual full size of disk space to be less than what it's labeled as. It's bullcrap advertising in a way, the drive DOES have that much space, but the file systems of today aren't much different than Windows 95, ergo they're crap.Supposedly in the future, with Windows anyway, their new file system will allow for the full advertised space of a hard drive to be used, but I would never count on that happening with Sony. I was a bit miffed that after making a 10 GB partition for linux, I only get 130 GB of the 'remaining' 150 GB of the drive I installed, but then again I'll probably never use that much space either.

Another thing, remember that over 90% of 360 owners that have a hard drive have a measly 20 GB (13 usable from the getgo). So with 40+ GB free in an overall better system you're still ahead of most of the pack - except me, my PS3 is better.

That's normal becuz I think they already downloaded some of thestuff into the HDD at first before you buy, PC is the same way...... I didnt even pay attention til today cuz you mentioned it, so yeah I just now checked my PS3 HDD. I still got lots of space left evenafter I downloaded a bunch of stuff like,movie traillers, game demos, etc.LOL