please help. hard drive is space ??

i recently purchased a 500 gig hard drive and installed it in the place of a forty gig hard drive. However once i put most of my old save files on it and checked the memory it showed that 405/465 was available. I was wondering first where might the 35 gigs have gone that are unaccounted for and why so much more space seemed to be used when i had only a forty gig hard drive before? Any thoughts would be appreciated.

I'm not very knowledgable wwhen it comes to HDD's. But I can tell you it's perfectly normal.

I just didn't think it would be in proportion to the amount of space available. I've already nearly used up one hundred gigs and i had more game saves and themes on my 40 gig hard drive. this hd has no themes and is missing a few game saves so thats why i was panicking. It's odd that it grabs more space depending upon how much is available.

The number of gigs advertised on all hard drives is based on 1000 Mb per gig instead of 1024 Mb per gig, so you loose some right there. The PS3 Dash allocates some space for cache purposes. I'd say 465 is about right.

The number of gigs advertised on all hard drives is based on 1000 Mb per gig instead of 1024 Mb per gig, so you loose some right there. The PS3 Dash allocates some space for cache purposes. I'd say 465 is about right.

360hammer

To put it simply as I can, computer operating systems measure a hard drive's capacity based on binary prefixes/standards (where 1GB = 1,073,741,824 bytes or 2^30). On the other hand, the companies that manufacture hard drives measure them based on the SI standard (where 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes or 10^9). That difference between the two measuring systems is the why you see 465GB rather than 500GB as the manufacturer states.jt4mtb

It's odd that it grabs more space depending upon how much is available.

Solidshark21