Did i get scammed off my ps3?

hi, i bought a 320 gig ps3, or so it says on the box but according to system settings it only has 299 gb, wut is goin on

I haven't tried that SKU, but PS3 saves a part of the HDD for updates and stuff.

Still 299GB will last for a while... I haven't even filled my 80GB after 3 years.

It's normal. it's just the way an OS reads bytes

For example, my 2tb drive only reads as 1.8tb.

Some of the memory is reserved for the OS and updates. I have a 120GB but it only shows 99.99GB

Hard drives are always about 7% less than advertised

That's very normal. It's the same with RAM and even clock speeds.

You know...

I think it's entirely possible you got scammed.

:P

You weren't scammed. It's quite normal for it to be like that. My 160gb says it has only 139gb.

Why.

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Since the early 2000s most consumer hard drive capacities are grouped in certain size measured in gigabytes. The exact capacity of a given drive is usually some number above or below the ****designation. Although most manufacturers of hard disk drives and flash-memory disk devices define 1 gigabyte as 1000000000bytes, software like Microsoft Windows reports size in gigabytes by dividing the total capacity in bytes by 1073741824, while still reporting the result with the symbol "GB". This practice is a cause of confusion, as a hard disk with a manufacturer-rated capacity of 400 gigabytes might be reported by the operating system as only "372GB", for instance. Other software, like Mac OS X 10.6[2] and some components of the Linux kernel[3] measure using the decimal units.

The JEDEC memory standards uses the IEEE 100 nomenclatures which defines a gigabyte as 1073741824bytes (or 230 bytes).[4]

The difference between units based on SI and binary prefixes increases as a semi-logarithmic (linear-log) function—for example, the SI kilobyte value is nearly 98% of the kibibyte, a megabyte is under 96% of a mebibyte, and a gigabyte is just over 93% of a gibibyte value. This means that a 300GB (279GiB) hard disk is indicated only as 279GB. As storage sizes increase and larger units are used, this difference becomes even more pronounced. Some legal challenges have been waged over this confusion such as a suit against Western Digital.[5][6] Western Digital settled the challenge and added explicit disclaimers to products that the usable capacity may differ from the advertised capacity.[6]

Because of its physical design, computer memory is addressed in multiples of base 2, thus, memory size at the hardware level can always be factored by a power of two. It is thus convenient to use binary units for non-disk memory devices at the hardware level, for example, in using DIMM memory boards. Software application, however, allocate memory, usually virtual memory in varying degrees of granularity as needed to fulfill data structure requirements, and binary multiples are usually not required. Other computer measurements, like storage hardware size, data transfer rates, clock speeds, operations per second, etc., do not depend on an inherent base, and are usually presented in decimal units.

- Wikipedia

no, everything has that. my computer says 500gb but in reality its like 460, my 120 gig ps3 really has like 95. i dont know why but everything does that