PS3 help/query

[Ice]

no worries mate

and as they say on most of the sites, be careful with the screws

will do but seeing as im doing this kinda shit all day, should be a piece of piss

[poita]

why even ask then

i still reckon group buy 500gb drives from ashley!!

[oneightoo]

well if it's anything like my pc HDD than it's probably down to labelling..

when have you have ever seen a hard drive that is exactly the same size as the label written on it?

eg. my 250gb hdd is actually 241.. i do feel ripped off.. but all hard drives are like that i think..

could be wrong

[sooty]

Yeah mine says 60 but is only 55, thing is there's another 15 or so missing on top of that. Couldn't all be update files maybe? I've cleared most of the photos, same with music, only have 1 demo game, then trophies and saves etc, then i've cleared the history and cookies from the browser. I'll put up some actual figures later for each section,
cheers for the replies!

[oneightoo]

could be os, drivers, players, updates for all these..

dunno, never really looked at mine..

might do that tonight actually

[Ice]

well if it's anything like my pc HDD than it's probably down to labelling..

when have you have ever seen a hard drive that is exactly the same size as the label written on it?

eg. my 250gb hdd is actually 241.. i do feel ripped off.. but all hard drives are like that i think..

could be wrong

its measured differently.

1 meg is 1024 kb
2 = 2048kb
4 = 4096kb
8 = 8192kb
16 = 16384
32 = 32768
64 = 65536
128 = 131072
256 = 262144
512 = 524288


ok Poita might be able to help. but see how the higher you go the more out of whack it becomes. its the same principles with a hard drive.

so thats why an 80 gig hard drive is only 74.5 and the higher you go the same happens. They measure the KB not the mb......ok Poita over to you, haha

[oneightoo]

difference is, your scale goes the other way..

[Calibrated]

And if you read this Ash,

only now that you pointed it out to me

group buy of ps3 hard drives from ash

lol. if you guys want to go ahead with that, just let me know.

[poita]

all hard drives have a loss factor of gigabytes
this is taking up by file alocation tables (FAT) and information needed for the OS to recognise the drive.

my 1tb only reads 931gb (ripped!!)

also read here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte

Your hard drive is advertised as having a 60GB capacity, but your computer shows only 55.8GB. What gives? The discrepancy is the result of having two methods of measuring memory. Computers are binary, or "base two," mathematical systems, and in a binary world a kilobyte is 1024 bytes (2 to the 10th power). When computers were new, the geekerati referred to this as a "kilo." Noncomputer folks, however, understood kilo to mean thousand, and thought that 1000 bytes should equal a kilobyte. So, two different measurements of hard drive space were born. In 1998, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) weighed in, defining 1 "gigabyte" as 1 billion bytes. Hard disk manufacturers agree, marketing their products using the rounder decimal value instead of the binary system. So, your drive is labeled as decimal ("giga") and your PC reads binary (IEC's term, "gibi"). Either way, you're getting the same bunch of bytes

[Ice]

all hard drives have a loss factor of gigabytes
this is taking up by file alocation tables (FAT) and information needed for the OS to recognise the drive.

my 1tb only reads 931gb (ripped!!)

also read here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte

oh yes, wikipedia...why didnt I think of that. thanks Pete.