Lost space with WD1600JB

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With my Western Digital 160GB (WD1600JB) drive, I created one extended
partition. In this partition is a 75GB NTFS slice and the other is a
18GB EXT3 (Linux) slice. I used Partition Magic to created these
partitions. PM reports that only 59GB is free, giving me a total of
152GB of available space on the drive. So, I was just wondering what
happened or happens to the 8GB not being reported.
 
With my Western Digital 160GB (WD1600JB) drive, I created one extended
partition. In this partition is a 75GB NTFS slice and the other is a
18GB EXT3 (Linux) slice. I used Partition Magic to created these
partitions. PM reports that only 59GB is free, giving me a total of
152GB of available space on the drive. So, I was just wondering what
happened or happens to the 8GB not being reported.
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Thats normal. Its just the two different ways of stating the size.
The manufacturer uses decimal GBs, 1,000,000,000 bytes
PM is using binary GBs, 1024*1024*1024 bytes.
 
It's because the advertising people counts sizes in decimal, but OS counts
in binary, so:

Advertised --- Actual Capacity
10GB --- 9.31 GB
20GB --- 18.63 GB
30GB --- 27.94 GB
40GB --- 37.25 GB
60GB --- 55.88 GB
80GB --- 74.51 GB
100GB --- 93.13 GB
120GB --- 111.76 GB
160GB --- 149.01 GB
180GB --- 167.64 GB
200GB --- 186.26 GB
250GB --- 232.83 GB




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With my Western Digital 160GB (WD1600JB) drive, I created one extended
partition. In this partition is a 75GB NTFS slice and the other is a
18GB EXT3 (Linux) slice. I used Partition Magic to created these
partitions. PM reports that only 59GB is free, giving me a total of
152GB of available space on the drive. So, I was just wondering what
happened or happens to the 8GB not being reported.
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Question
Why is my drive displaying a smaller than expected capacity
than the indicated size on the drive label?
Answer
<http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc...3B2PSZwX2N2PSZwX3BhZ2U9MQ**&p_li=&p_topview=1>
 
Previously said:
With my Western Digital 160GB (WD1600JB) drive, I created one extended
partition. In this partition is a 75GB NTFS slice and the other is a
18GB EXT3 (Linux) slice. I used Partition Magic to created these
partitions. PM reports that only 59GB is free, giving me a total of
152GB of available space on the drive. So, I was just wondering what
happened or happens to the 8GB not being reported.
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PM uses the wrong units. It says 152GB, but means 152GiB.
152GiB = 160GB. See here:

http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html

Arno
 
Previously Thomas Wendell said:
It's because the advertising people counts sizes in decimal, but OS counts
in binary, so:
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Advertised --- Actual Capacity
10GB --- 9.31 GB
20GB --- 18.63 GB
30GB --- 27.94 GB
40GB --- 37.25 GB
60GB --- 55.88 GB
80GB --- 74.51 GB
100GB --- 93.13 GB
120GB --- 111.76 GB
160GB --- 149.01 GB
180GB --- 167.64 GB
200GB --- 186.26 GB
250GB --- 232.83 GB
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You have it wrong. The HDD manufacturers do what is required by law,
i.e. correct use of units. Reference:

http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html

Arno
 
Peter said:
Since when 152 * 1.073741824 = 160 ?
You have it wrong.
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I rounded off the totals of the space reported by PM. So it may not be
152GB but I know it not 160GB. Thanks to all for the responses.
 
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