PS3 40GIG: Missing Gigs

yea mines the same

dont worry

Well, to be accurate some of that missing space is just due to a difference in measurement systems. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_drive#Capacity_measurements

"The disk manufacturer used the SI definition of "giga", 109 to arrive at 30 GB; however, because the utilities provided by Windows, Mac and some Linux distributions define a gigabyte as 1,073,741,824 bytes (230 bytes, often referred to as a gibibyte, or GiB), the operating system reports capacity of the disk drive as (only) 28.0 GB."

Well, to be accurate some of that missing space is just due to a difference in measurement systems. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_drive#Capacity_measurements

"The disk manufacturer used the SI definition of "giga", 109 to arrive at 30 GB; however, because the utilities provided by Windows, Mac and some Linux distributions define a gigabyte as 1,073,741,824 bytes (230 bytes, often referred to as a gibibyte, or GiB), the operating system reports capacity of the disk drive as (only) 28.0 GB."in english hes saying the harddrives keeps some memory for the operating system

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Its because of a diference with the number they say the HDD has, and the real number it actually has due to a measuring difference, since 1 gig for the number you see equals 1000MB while the actual number is a bit bigger.

Alas, my 80 comes with only 74 gigs.

in english hes saying the harddrives keeps some memory for the operating systemwwedx

Actually, no. None of what I said as anything to do with the OS keeping memory. When a HDD manufacturer sizes a HDD, they label it with SI units ( 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes); an operating system uses the definition 1GB = 1,073,741,824 bytes. It's a difference of how it measures it. It's like converting currency. While $1 is $1 in Austrailia, that same dollar is only worth $0.94 in the US (http://finance.yahoo.com/currency/convert?from=AUD&to=USD&amt=1&t=2y ).

Ok, Sony can't seem to give me a straight answer on this, but according to the forums here, I think I have one. To be clear though, you lose 10 gigs to the OS of the PS 3?

I have an 80 gig model, that starts saying max space 74 gigs, and max available 64. So in total I lose 16 gigs, making it effectively a 60 gig unit. This sounds like an increadible rip off, but I want to see if others have this same issue.

-Ryan

tha gta4 install is a few gigs. and a gig of music.

plus the ps3 os is 3 gigs. with nothing on it the 40 has 37 gigs. dont worry about it.

It's the same way every OS works, even a PC's HDD uses some space for the OS. So this is perfectly normal.jimm895

yup. i have a "320" gb hd on my laptop but when i got it it displayed 302. same with my 80gb ps3. its max space available is only 74gb, which is still plenty of room

sounds like Binary versus Decimal to me. In Binary, 1 MB is 1024 bytes...whereas in Decimal 1 MB is 1000 bytes. As you go all the way up to GB and more, those little differences end up becomming pronounced.

So a 40 GB drive is actually 30-ish GB, however, if you look at the actual byte count, you see you do indeed have 40,000,000,000 bytes on the drive.

then of course the OS and such take stuff up....

well, most seems to have been expalined here already. but..yeah.