maxtor hdd capacity problem

alley · Joined: 26 Sep 2005 Posts: 4

Hi. I have a problem with Maxtor HDD capacity. I have bought 160GB Maxtor hard drive and installed it. I have noticed that Windows shows hard drive has only 149.8 GB capacity. Hard drive is new and I have created one partition that took all unallocated space. Why this hard drive has 10.2 GB less then it should have. Should I return it?

aksel · Joined: 13 Jun 2004 Posts: 4

Hello. This is a common thing and source of confusion. Hard drive manufacturers are using usual base 10 system, while all other software and hardware manufacturers are using, for computers, common base 2 system. So, for hard drive manufacturer 1000 MB = 1 GB while for Windows 1024 MB = 1 GB. So, your Maxtor HDD does not have capacity problem.

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