“I just recieved this and the drive is only 3.63TB available on the drive, my question is why is this drive 370GB less than the 4TB posted? I know that some sofeware is required to be on the drive but not 370GB worth.”
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Hard drive manufacturers use bytes to sell their drives. In reality, GB is the measurement. To have 4GB, you need 4,294,967,296 bytes. The drive has 4,000,000,000 bytes or 3.72529GB. 1024 bytes = 1kb 1024 kb = 1mb 1024 mb = 1gb 1024 X 1024 X 1024 = GB So 4,000,000,000/1024/1024/1024 = 3.72529GB
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Because computers use binary and humans use decimals. When we say 1TB, a computer calculates that as 930GB. So 930GBx4 = 3.72TB. Not sure the size of the programs on the drive. But now at least we're not as far off from your 3.63TB allocation.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.I bought this same drive, (I have 3) and as you mention there is preloaded software. Western Digital configured the drive to interface with both Microsoft and Mac operating systems, so there is a separate interface file for each operating system for start up and operation. Because the drive has additional programs and features, each program and feature requires it's own separate Mac file and a Microsoft file too. Because of the complexity for Easystore to interface with multiple programs on each operating system, it stands to reason the files are not small. When I checked the files, I see that is the case, plus there are hidden files of unknown size. Even internal SATA drives and SSD drives have a hidden partition with hidden files to enable it to operate, so you aren't able to utilize all the space on the hard drive.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Depends on your OS and how the drive is partitioned and how the file system is formatted. Secondly, it depends which terminology you are using (binary vs. human).
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