Shellness;547229 Wrote: > > - 2) both SDA & SDB are 1Tb yet the size is shown as 916Gb & 902 Gb > respectively Ive lost nearly 100Gb per HDD >
No you haven't. Drive makers mean '1,000,000,000,000' when they say it is a terabyte. Computers like powers of 2, not 10. So, 916Gb = 916 *1024 *1024 *1024 or 983547510784, which is well over half the 'lost' space. Add in filesystem stuff (even an empty drive has portions reserved for directory structure type information.. on Linux this is an 'inode' which contains pointers to where the data is. inodes take space even if unused. (try "df -i"). So, yeah all the data is there. You're just dealing with drive vendor who always seem to think computers are base-10 devices, or perhaps the OS that thinks drives should always be based on base-2 since block sizes on the driver are powers of 2. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78594
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