“I just received and installed this for my XBox and before I put a single thing on it, it already say 7.2 Tbyte free thought this was 8 Tbyrte..”
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Hi Burky, Thanks for choosing the WD Black D10 for XBox. Please know to determining drive capacity can be confusing at times because of the different measurement standards that are often used. When dealing with Windows and Mac based systems, you will commonly see both decimal measurements and binary measurements of a drive's capacity. In either case, a drive's capacity is measured by using the total number of bytes available on the drive. As long as the drive displays the correct number of bytes (approximate), you are getting the drive's full capacity. Please refer to the link mentioned below. "Drive displays a smaller capacity than the indicated size on the drive label" https://support-en.wd.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/16656 Need Help? Please see our "'Contact Us" page for information.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.It is an 8TB HDD but it has to do with how the drive is read. HDD have been that way for years when it comes to showing the amount free. I got this from Seagates website to explain the discrepancy: "Hard drive manufacturers market drives in terms of decimal (base 10) capacity. In decimal notation, one megabyte (MB) is equal to 1,000,000 bytes, one gigabyte (GB) is equal to 1,000,000,000 bytes, and one terabyte (TB) is equal to 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. Programs such as FDISK, system BIOS, Windows, and older versions of macOS use the binary (base 2) numbering system. In the binary numbering system, one megabyte is equal to 1,048,576 bytes, one gigabyte is equal to 1,073,741,824 bytes, and one terabyte is equal to 1,099,511,627,776 bytes." My guess is since Xbox One is based on Windows 10 it's still using the base 2 numbering system. So your drive is fine. I got one too recently to use on my Xbox One X and it has been great so far!
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