“Is this a 14 TB? The photos above show only 12.7 TB available !!”
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Operating systems usually report drive capacity in a scale based on powers of 1024. However, drives are usually advertised with the capacity quoted in a shorter scale based on powers of 1000, resulting in a larger number. This accounts for most of the difference.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.One Terabyte (TB) is 0.9095 Tebybite (TiB). So 14x0.9095=12.733 and all is fine on your side. The nas shows you TiB while the makers of disks
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.This is a legitimate question that deserves a full answer without condescension. The apparent difference is caused by how engineers look at capacity vs. how software developers see it. Engineers are very literal so when they say a drive size is 1 Megabyte, it can hold exactly 1 million bytes. However, software folks see everything in base 2 math instead of base 10. So the closest to 1k is 2^10 = 1024. Therefore, an engineer's 1 MB is 1,000*1,000=1,000,000 physical bytes while a programmer's 1MB is 1,024*1,024=1,048,576 physical bytes. The gap between the two just gets wider as you look at larger numbers since the first always multiplies by 1,000 and the second by 1,024. All drives are sold using the engineering standard because it's a bigger decimal number representing the same physical capacity. In short, engineers say it's a 14 TB drive, programmers say it's a 12.7 TB drive. Both are correct as it's the same capacity listed differently.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Hi SherryS87, Please know that while 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. Need Help? Please see our "'Contact Us" page for information.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.If you have a computer memory with an 8 bit address bus, then you can only address 256 words (and if the word size is 1 byte, then that's 256 bytes). Note 2^8 = 256. As memories got larger, the familiar metric prefixes (kilo-, mega-, giga-, etc.) were used, but with a modified meaning. kilo = 10^3 (a thousand), mega = 10^6 (a million), and each successive prefix increases by a factor of a thousand. In contrast, the binary based meanings are kilo = 2^10 = 1024, and each succesively greater prefix is a factor of 1024 times greater. To eliminate confusion, newer prefix abbreviations were introduced for the binary-based prefixes. So instead of kB, you'd have kiB, but the general public is not that familiar. Hard drives don't store data in a memory array governed by the size of an address bus, So some say the capacity should be specified according to the base 10 prefixes. But operating systems report file sizes and storage capacities by the binary prefixes. Marketing departments like the base-10 values because it gives a bigger number. For a 14TB drive, your OS will report its capacity as: 14x10^12 / (1024^4) = 12.7TB
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Yes there is nothing wrong with the drive the correct capacity is 14Tebibytes not terabytes.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.The way they calculate the size usually means the actual storage in Windows is about 10% less than advertised. I have WD 3TB and 8TB drives and they are also like that. Just the way it is, but yeah, you will have 12.7TB of available storage.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Computer engineers SHOULD be smart enough to know 1024 instead of 1000. WE are all OCD anyway. Computer companies will do ANYTHING to make a buck. WHY distort the truth? IF it's 14TB call it 14TB. Saying they round to 1000 from 1024 is ignorant. + MY last 2 drives were 2 8TB (supposedly), they actually were 7.2 so NOT 16TB but 14.4. WHAT A DIFFERENCE! +So now I want a 14 to cover the other 14.4, BUT NO! - - it's ONLY 12.7TB. Its the AMERICAN WAY! ? << No one will see this anyway since Best Buy makes money off these 'deviations' in logic and won't POST. >> HOPE this helps people triple check THE SPECS on every drive. Oh yeah - let them know this is stupid.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.LOL - read this - https://promotionaldrives.com/blog/why-do-usb-flash-drives-show-a-lower-storage-capacity-when-plugged-into-a-computer/
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.What a bunch of crap. Trick advertising bottom line.
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