Hard Drive Size

[jinda]

Having purchased my VGN S3HP, whilst the stated specification is 60gb when I check the hard drive sizes split between C - (Free 19.1gb total 27.9gb) D (Free 20.9gb total 20.9)

I have not added any new applications onto my machine and have only 3 music cds stored on the hard drive. But have only 40gig of hard drive capacity left.

Does this have anything to do with Sonys recovery system as I have noted that the display model also had around 20gig less than the stated spec of 60gig.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

in addition can someone please tell me how to personalise the s1 and s2 buttons.

Thks

[TygerTyger]

I think he meant the number of Megabytes to a Gigabyte. It doesn't really matter anyway, it's the recovery partition that's taking up the space, the counting of bytes doesn't make such a big difference.

[kee-lo_]

True but people need to realise it's not 60GB when formatted with Windows.

[seb21__]

Erm, Seb, make the disks then delete is the best policy 

I find this hard to believe as 1 gigabit is only 0.125 gigabytes, meaning that if Sony advertised a 60 gigabit hard drive it would only be 7.5 gigabytes.

8Bit = 1Byte (or for example 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 or anything)

1GigaBit = 1.000MegaBit = 1.000.000KiloBit = 1.000.000.000Bit
1GigaByte = 1.024MegaByte = 1.048.576KiloByte = 1.073.741.824Byte


That's the theory.

[vaiodon]

8 bits = 1 byte: correct

The rest of the explanation misleading.

Disk capacity is never discussed in terms of bits, it's just bytes. The difference I think Seb21 is alluding to is the fact that drive vendors specify capacity in bytes in a base10 number system (1x10^6 - 1,000,000 - million/megabytes), whereas Windows (and any other OS) will create the file system in a base2 numbering system (1x2^20 - 1,048,576 - megabytes).

Confusingly, the former is sometimes referred to as Kb, the latter always KB. I guess this is where the bits mixup can occur - if we're talking about, for example, network speeds the 'b' in Kb or Mb means bits. Definitely not bytes.

[seb21__]

The difference I think Seb21 is alluding to is the fact that drive vendors specify capacity in bytes in a base10 number system (1x10^6 - 1,000,000 - million/megabytes), whereas Windows (and any other OS) will create the file system in a base2 numbering system (1x2^20 - 1,048,576 - megabytes).

AHA:smileyidea: But then is the questiont: Why they do that? But it must be true because one sector on a Harddisk has 512 "Bytes"

On the HDD in my laptop are 116.280 cylinders with 63 sectors per track, and 16 heads. (normally a HDD has double so much heads, like disks)
That makes 117.210.240 LBA sectors. Or 60.011.642.880 Bytes - 60 million/megabytes. (60x10^6)

But 60x2^20 = 62.914.560 MegaByte. Which are 60GigaByte. But the HDD in my laptop has only 55,9 GigaByte. Because 60.011.642.880 Bytes / 1024 are 55,9 GigaBytes. Then 60x2^20 would be incorrect.

You understand my confusion?

Confusingly, the former is sometimes referred to as Kb, the latter always KB. I guess this is where the bits mixup can occur - if we're talking about, for example, network speeds the 'b' in Kb or Mb means bits. Definitely not bytes.

I know, that's true. It would be nice to have a 1MegaByte connection. The surprise is big if you see that the download rate is much smaller.

[hldomster]

This is my source of information. I love google, so brilliantly brilliant in every way.

[seb21__]

:smileygrin: you could also use the Windows Calculator.

[kee-lo_]

Trust Microsoft to go against the grain!

[seb21__]

[kee-lo_]

Using different base Seb