Is there a way to make my 8 terabyte hdd, show up as 8 terabyte?
Currently shows as 7.630 tb in gparted.
install gentoo
use a sticky note
>>51602105
I did on my laptop
>>51602093
Must be defective
You better send it back.
>>51602093
Mebibyte - megabyte, that's why.
>>51602093
SI != IEC
Also, the file system itself take up some space.
>>51602131
this tbqh familia
seagate is shite
units
You have: 8 terabytes
You want: tebibytes
* 7.2759576
wait wut, so why does it show 7.63 for OP?
>>51602222
checked
How do you not know about this?
Every drive you buy is advertised as 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. In reality, 1 GB=1024*1024*1024 bytes
= 1073741824 bytes
So crunch those numbers and after 8,000GB you're left with a decent bit less than the advertised amount.
>>51602222
>>51602196
I'm not sure how actually
I'm no good with this stuff
Put it in microwave for 1min for hdd to be unlocked to 8tb tbqh, that solved my issue
>>51602131
>>51602250
OP, don't waist your time. Just send it back and get a replacement. Otherwise your not getting your money's worth.
>>51602222
but that's megabytes -> mebibytes which is different from terabytes -> tebibytes
>>51602295
I know, but that's the only way I could get the 7.63 figure OP has
>>51602305
maybe gparted is being really lazy with its conversion and only using the formula for megabytes to mebibytes no matter what the byte unit is? idk
>>51602093
There's no problem to fix, manufacturers and os's calculate storage space differently.
>>51602247
THIS. thread over.
>>51602093
Open my computer, right click the drive, rename, 8 terabyte drive
>>51602093
hard disks usually say on the box something like
1GB = 1 billion bytes, so this 8000GB drive is only 8 billion bytes (7.630 TB measured to 1024 instead of 1000)
>>51603025
incorrect
>>51603053
incorrect
>>51602093
I think only on OSX will it show up as 8tb.
>>51603136
i beg you are pardon?
>>51603164
You may not have my pardon.
>>51603053
correct
http://www.seagate.com/files/www-content/product-content/hdd-senpai/seagate-archive-hdd/en-us/docs/archive-hdd-dS1834-3-1411us.pdf
>>51603895
>1GB = 1 billion bytes
>so this 8000GB drive is only 8 billion bytes
>8000 == 8
False.
>>51602093
HDD as marketed as 1000*1000*1000*1000 = 1 tb
Computers list them as 1024* 1024*1024*1024 = 1tb
so 8 tb is 8 000 000 000 000 bytes, which shows up as 7450,58 gigabytes on your machine.
If you got 7.630 tb then it's a bit larget than 8 000 000 000 000 bytes.
Drives are measured in gigabytes by manufacturers. Computers work in gibibytes, which are slightly bigger. It,s normal for drives to show up as slightly less the gigabyte value.
Seems gparted is fucking up the unit conversions, it should be either showing 8TB, or 7.276TiB
>>51602331
this.
