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Message: <blockquote data-quote="smother" data-source="post: 11100967" data-attributes="member: 166532">1GiB = 1024MiB1MiB = 1024KiB1KiB =1024BTherefore ...1GiB = 1024 x 1024 x 1024 = 1 073 741 824 bytes1GB = 1 000 000 000 bytes500GB = 465GiB500gb is the nominal capacity, not the actual usable capacity you get.When you build a filesystem on the disk there are several factors to consider which you cannot necessarily control under Windows, and there are data structures required which take up some of the space on the disk.The filesystem needs to maintain a location to store all the information (block addresses) of where all the files are on your disk , when you create them, and by default the filesystem will be built to accomodate normally a generous number of files.In contrast , under Unix/Linux , when you create a file system you can tell it how mush space (overhead) you want to use for this , thus get more usuable space on the disk.So , forget about '500gb' or '1Tb' disks , you never get the amount of space you think you will get.</blockquote>

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