120 HD only 111.35

vatovato
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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
I have the MacBook Pro 2.16, with a 120 gig HD, problem is it only shows 111.35 gigs, any ideas as to why?



Paul Vato

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  • Reply 1 of 4
    logantlogant Posts: 60member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Vato View Post


    I have the MacBook Pro 2.16, with a 120 gig HD, problem is it only shows 111.35 gigs, any ideas as to why?



    Paul Vato



    That's how most HD's are.
  • Reply 2 of 4
    halijanhalijan Posts: 24member
    its to do with the formatting mate, once any HD is formatted its smaller basically
  • Reply 3 of 4
    smalmsmalm Posts: 677member
    For all HD manufacturers 1GB = 1,000,000,000 Byte (10^9)

    For everyone else 1GB = 1,073,741,824 Byte (2^30)



    The HD manufacturers are using GB correctly everyone else not



    Yes, you loose some space when formatting.

    I lost 0.2GB from 372.6GB
  • Reply 4 of 4
    mrtotesmrtotes Posts: 760member
    Indeed to convert between binary (used to store data) and decimal used for sales purposes:



    (120 x 1000^3) / (1024^3) = 111.76GB



    The remaining difference is lost to formatting.
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