why have i only got 47gig out of my 60gig ps3 i know when you 1st format it it goes down to 55gig but mine is now 47gig thats like 8gig diffrence would that be the ps3 OS i have fully updated to to version 2.10 and installed folding @ home could please help me
If you have Linux it will take up 10 gb, the PS3 OS itself takes some space too as well as the inherent problem with Hard Drive "sizing".
Quote:That lost capacity goes several places. One of them is the difference between formatted and unformatted size. Hard disk manufacturers quote the unformatted size of their products, but you have to format the disk to use it. This process of dividing up a disk into blocks and setting up the tables and such to record and manage each block takes space.
Finally, in some cases, the capacity wasn't there to begin with. If you want to get technical about it, a KB should be 1024 bytes, not 1,000, because you're dealing with binary (base 2) notation. But when most people, including marketers, say "Kb," they mean 1,000 bytes. Similarly, a megabyte (MB) should be 1,024 KB, not 1,000, and so on. That terminological leakage adds up by the time you get into multiple gigabytes. However your computer reckons such things as disk capacity in binary and to a computer, a KB is 1,024 bytes. This is the standard practice in the industry and even though there has been a lawsuit filed challenging the "truth in advertising" over the 1,024 vs. 1,000 byte debate, it's not likely to change.
There is not a lot you, a user, can do about any of this capacity. The formatting loss in inevitable, the terminological difference is embedded in our system and messing with hidden partitions just to get more disk space is not a good idea. However, understanding why your disk storage capacity isn't 100% as the advertisement says, should be a comfort.
