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Xbox hard drive showing as 13GB
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30. June 2009 @ 17:03 |
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Hi I have just purchased what I though was a 20GB xbox hard drive, for some reason its only showing as 13GB. I though there was only 20, 60 & 120's available.
Anyone shed any light on this?
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30. June 2009 @ 17:41 |
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You can buy a 80GB iPod but only be able to use 76GB of it. You have to allow room for the firmware, the operating files, drivers, ect. Same thing with the 360 HDD, you have to allow room for the required files. This goes for every type of storage device, even flash drives. I have a 4GB flash drive that only has 3.8GB of storage.
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30. June 2009 @ 18:10 |
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Correct but i have owned several 20 gig drives for the xbox 360 and from the factory your hdd should have a little over 16 gigs free.
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30. June 2009 @ 18:14 |
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The short answer to there's two different measurement formats used. Decimal (GB) and binary (GiB) formats. Binary is used by Windows and decimal is used by the manufacturers
. Both the manufacturer and Windows are giving you the "correct" number.
Binary numbers are numbers that are a power of 2.
Decimal numbers are numbers that are a power of 10.
2^10 is 1,024 the closest Decimal number is 10^3 or 1,000
2^20 is 1,048,576 The closest Decimal number is 10^6 or 1,000,000
2^30 is 1,073,741,824 The closest Decimal number is 10^9 or 1,000,000,000
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30. June 2009 @ 19:21 |
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Originally posted by cheez_cs:
You can buy a 80GB iPod but only be able to use 76GB of it. You have to allow room for the firmware, the operating files, drivers, ect. Same thing with the 360 HDD, you have to allow room for the required files. This goes for every type of storage device, even flash drives. I have a 4GB flash drive that only has 3.8GB of storage.
I understand that but do you not think that 7GB if slightly high? I had a 256 mem card prior to this and 128 was taken for system files.
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The short answer to there's two different measurement formats used. Decimal (GB) and binary (GiB) formats. Binary is used by Windows and decimal is used by the manufacturers
. Both the manufacturer and Windows are giving you the "correct" number.
Binary numbers are numbers that are a power of 2.
Decimal numbers are numbers that are a power of 10.
2^10 is 1,024 the closest Decimal number is 10^3 or 1,000
2^20 is 1,048,576 The closest Decimal number is 10^6 or 1,000,000
2^30 is 1,073,741,824 The closest Decimal number is 10^9 or 1,000,000,000
Kinda understand this, I work for a ISP and they class 1000 MB as a GB
. Im still thinking that losing nearly 7 gig isnt right.
On a side note, I'm thinking of upgrading to 120GB with one of These, Would I be able to convert the 20GB drive to PC format and sell it to offset the cost?
Thanks
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30. June 2009 @ 19:26 |
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Back in the day when 20 GB was premium, you only had 13.7 GB on a brand new one because they put stupid demos, videos and themes on the HDD. Format it and you'll get "most" of it back.
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30. June 2009 @ 19:28 |
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Nice one, ill try that. Did go through and manually deleted everything earlier but didn't format due to saved games. Ill let you know how I get on.
Thanks
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30. June 2009 @ 19:34 |
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