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PlayStation 3 with 1 TB internal Hard Drive

  • 20-12-2011 7:28am
    #1
    Elgire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51 ✭✭


    Hi everyone,

    I have already tried searching this forum and the greater world wide web for an answer to this question but so far have found nothing.

    I purchased a Samsung 2.5 1 TB SATA Hard Drive from Komplett to replace my 60 GB Hard Drive, now full (58 GB), that I have had since launch.

    I backed up my old hard drive which came to 58 GB and proceeded to install and format the new 1 TB inside the PlayStation. After booting up I navigated to check out the System information to view Free Space 840 GB/931 GB.
    *Note this is before re-installing the back up.

    After back up 780 GB/931 GB.

    My question is, firstly, why is only 931 GB available from a possible 1000 GB?
    I wasn't expecting to get the whole capacity, maybe 980 GB, but to lose 69 GB, more than the whole capacity of the original hard drive is a little confusing.

    Secondly, as it was a clean install, only 840 GB of the 931 GB capacity was free, losing another 91 GB!

    Total of 160 GB loss.

    Has anyone else had this type of issue before? The missing GBs seem very excessive to me.

    On the plus side, console works perfect, backing up and re-installing was pain free.


Comments

  • #2
    Varik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,561 ✭✭✭✭Varik


    Everyone since the 80s has had that overall capacity loss.

    The rest is formatting and the file system.

    numbers are odd should be 92GB loss for unformatted (not 69) and as it's a proprietary file system who knows what the loss for formatted should be.


  • #3
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    You will never fill that 1TB


  • #4
    Nailz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,688 ✭✭✭Nailz


    Tallon wrote: »
    You will never fill that 1TB
    That sounds like a challenge...


  • #5
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    lol


  • #6
    mcgovern
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,267 ✭✭✭mcgovern


    Hard disc manufacturers quote the capacity of their drives decimally, where kilo=1,000 (and mega=1,000 kilo etc), whereas operating systems usually use the 'binary standard', where kilo=1024 etc. On large modern hard disc this can amount to quite a difference.
    So I think from a 1TB drive you should have 940 GB, minus whatever space the filesystem uses.


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  • #7
    aindriu80
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,968 ✭✭✭aindriu80


    i couldnt find a 1tb hard disk and had to setting for 640gb. I lost space like any hard disk but no matter how much I have downloaded it will take me ages to fill it.


  • #8
    Glico Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,283 ✭✭✭Glico Man


    aindriu80 wrote: »
    i couldnt find a 1tb hard disk and had to setting for 640gb. I lost space like any hard disk but no matter how much I have downloaded it will take me ages to fill it.

    I wouldn't be so sure of that. I've a 320 GB and thought it would take ages to fill it. Took me about 2/3 months to fill. Its easy to fill if you're putting loads of pictures, music and HD movies on it. Not to mention full game downloads.


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