“My drive has 9.09 TB w/ 10 MB of space used for the install files that came along with it. Where's the rest of the space?”
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Hi MissingSpace, 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 refer to the link for more information: 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.As with ALL storage media there is overhead involved. You can't put 16GB of files on a 16GB SD card. There is reserved space that is used by a table of contents of sorts. Every time a file is added, it's location, file name, file type, as well as other attributes are added to this index so when you view the contents of the drive you're really just looking at the table of contents (index). When you choose to open a file, the info in the index provides the location of the file, the program necessary to actually use the file, and if the file is not contiguous, where all the fragments are. There's more but it gets a bit more technical.
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