“Why is this about 230gb short? I have a 14tb seagate and wanted to copy everything to have a spare backup and the western digital 14tb is too small to fit whats on the seagate 14tb. I even did a disk cleanup and made sure the trash was deleted”
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Has to do with how manufacturers display their size vs format size. These are helium filled drives and the tracks are written closer causing some space to be lost for bad sector reservation.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.A terabyte has a storage drive capacity of about 1 trillion bytes. But more specifically, 1,099,511,627,776 bytes; 1,073,741,824 kilobytes; or 1,048,576 megabytes. My installed capacity shows as 14.000.517.541.888 bytes. Dividing this number by the number of bytes in a terabyte equals 12.73339652642608, or a smidge over 12.73, So, what is advertised appears to be the number of bytes in the storage unit, not the number of terabytes in the storage unit. My NFTS file system shows the capacity to be 12.72 TB
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Hello, 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. Please follow the below link to know more: “Drive displays a smaller capacity than the indicated size on the drive label”:https://support-en.wd.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/16656 For more info on the drive, refer to the link: http://products.wdc.com/library/AAG/ENG/4078-705144.pdf -Need Help? Please see our "'Contact Us" page for information.
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