lacie harddisk only 74.5 of 80gb

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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
i bought myself a external firewire harddisk.

(lacie 80gb firewire studio drive)



as i formated it with "disk utility" a got 74.5gb to use.



i know that the os/filesystem takes a slice of the harddisk, but 5.5gb? thats 7% of the disk!



i called up lacie support and they told me "thats normal".



has anybody got experience with this kind of stuff?

is there a %age of how much space a harddisk loses after formating?



i use mac os x 10.1.5 on a g4 cube.



ps: my cube sits on my desk and does his job perfect and absolut silent - and this lacie harddisk sounds like a diesel-truck.

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 3
    alcimedesalcimedes Posts: 5,486member
    the difference is that a megabyte is actually 1024 in size. so 1 MB is actually 1.024 in size, not 1.



    doesn't seem all that important until you start getting into huge sizes. suddenly that slight difference adds up, and the sizes don't match.



    it happens on macs and PC's. nothing unusual.
  • Reply 2 of 3
    pevepeve Posts: 518member
    [quote]Originally posted by alcimedes:

    <strong>the difference is that a megabyte is actually 1024 in size. so 1 MB is actually 1.024 in size, not 1.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    yeah, that came to my mind short after posting.

    if i take 1gb as 1024mb it adds up to 78gb usable disk-space.

    and i can deal with 2gigs out of 80gigs for filesystem-stuff.



    [quote]doesn't seem all that important until you start getting into huge sizes. suddenly that slight difference adds up, and the sizes don't match.(...)<hr></blockquote>



    thanx anyway, alchimedes.

    btw: if you are from the states - don't you ever sleep?



    [ 07-15-2002: Message edited by: peve ]</p>
  • Reply 3 of 3
    alcimedesalcimedes Posts: 5,486member
    lol, when i posted that info for you, i did the math myself,. came out with 78 something.



    one thing i have found though is that no computer that i've ever owned came in at that exact number, always something lower. i might be off on the differential as well, since it's the same difference in size across the board.



    oh yeah, and yes i'm from the states, and no, i don't sleep much.
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