500,000,000,000 Bytes divide by 1024
488,281,250 kBytes divide by 1024 again
476,837 MegaBytes and divide again by 1024
And you have: 465 GigaBytes
Manufacturers play with terms allowing them for better numbers.
when they say 500GB, its GB using the usual numbering system.
But a computer uses the other way as explained
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
That's correct, all of my 500GB only have 465GB usable space. NTFS has the most overhead of all the file systems because of it's feature set and that consumes space for the partition information and file tables. Also, what David75 said.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
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