iMac HD 460GB, suppose to be 500GB.

[joby866]

Hey all,

I bought an iMac (24", 3.06GHz) about 3/4 days ago now. And I just noticed, that my Hard Drive isn't what it's suppose to be. The HDD I'm suppose to have is a 500GB HDD. When Infact I have a 460GB HDD? What's all that about?

 

[Eidorian]

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[Chundles]

Hey all,

I bought an iMac (24", 3.06GHz) about 3/4 days ago now. And I just noticed, that my Hard Drive isn't what it's suppose to be. The HDD I'm suppose to have is a 500GB HDD. When Infact I have a 460GB HDD? What's all that about?

There's nothing wrong, the figures are right.

500 actual gigabytes equal roughly 465 "binary" gigabytes. You got all the space you paid for.

 

[swiftaw]

Hard Drive Manfacturers label 500GB as meaning 500,000,000,000 bytes.

But to a computer (which counts in binary), 500,000,000,000 bytes = 5,000,000,000 / (1024^3) = approx 465 Gigabytes

You haven't lost anything, it's just two different labeling systems.

 

[Scarlet Fever]

Gigabytes aren't Gibibytes

 

[andrewline6]

awesome ive been wondering what the hell that was all about. still... they should say its a 460 gb hard drive or make it 580gb so it actually is 500gb.

 

[joby866]

Thanks, I was freaked out for a moment!

 

[Scarlet Fever]

awesome ive been wondering what the hell that was all about. still... they should say its a 460 gb hard drive or make it 580gb so it actually is 500gb.

They should, but they won't, because it'll cost them more money. They are technically right, though; Disk Utility says my 320GB drive does have about 320,000,000,000 bytes of space on it.