HDD Size ????

[ahmadka2]

hey all, guys, i have a little question...........yesterday, i installed a hard drive in my ps2......although everything ran smoothly, i have this question...its a Seagate 80GB hard drive...........now, when i put it in the ps2, and run hdadvance, after formatting, i get the following stats:


Total Size : 74GB
Free Space: 71GB


what is the meaning of this.....i heard of 2GB being used up by the ps2 file system.............but isnt 9GB a bit too much ???

[Sandman`]

It's the same thing that always happens in PC's, the stated size isnt exactly right. "80gig" is 80,000,000,000bytes or 78,125,000KB or 76,293MB = 74.5GB. (1024 bits = 1 byte).

The other 3 gig you lost is just the PS2 file system (it always rounds up)

[taz030485]

(1024 bits = 1 byte)

Close but a bit off, 8 Bits (symbol B) = 1 byte (symbol b)
1024b = 1kb
1024kb = 1mb
1024mb = 1gb
etc

And you are correct in saying 80,000,000,000bytes as the size, as hdd manufactorers use the standard 1000 someing = 1 kilo something, eg:
1000m = 1km
1000g = 1kg
etc

Most ISP's do the same with there download usage amounts, I just copied this from my ISP's usge site

For all purposes 1 Gigabyte (GB) = 1,000 Megabytes (MB).

[KaylaKaze]

You've got your symbols backwards. Byte is B, bit is b.