Why does the 32GB drive have a capacity of 30 billion bytes or 28GB?
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Usually that space is used when formatting the memory, mine was formatted as FAT32 and shows 30.98 GB
688603
I'm pretty sure it is only available in 30 gb :) Not that it's a bad thing at all. Considering a WMV movies seems to take up 200 mbs on average, you are looking at 50 movies for 10gbs (full movies). Based on those numbers and having 30 gb, you can store quite a lot.MS clearly aimed this at the 30gb Ipod though. That's probably where Ipod makes most of their Ipod video sales anyway, which is why MS targetted it.
423793
I use a thumb drive I'm on my western digital units. The largest one I used was a 64 gig and it use it with no problem.
2096273
I used a 32GB in this unit. Of course, the unit lasted just 30 days. Amazon did replace.
715301
32GB assuming that you have windows 7 pro. Basic limits you on ram available.
1149284
There are two different types of caches. The 32 MB cache is the usual cache used in any hard drive all of which have such a cache up to 64MB. What makes this a hybrid is the 8GB of SLC Nand flash memory (SLC Nand is more expensive than the MLC Nand used in consumer SSDs and does not have the limited lifetime issues). It is the latter that makes this different from the regular hard drives. See my review of Dec 15, 2012 for when this is good and when not... http://www.amazon.com/review/R36HPN679UBDZ8/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B00691WMJG&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag=
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It is 100% 32GB Version. The harddrive is with 32GB ROM, I am not talking about its TF/Micro SD card either.
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24 or 20 gb, I forget which. And a hard hard. It uses the ssd to hold a cache of the most often accessed files, which makes a lot of functions run faster.
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My computer running Windows 7 Ultimate reports Capacity 31,005,667,328 bytes 28.8 GB. Hope that helps. Extremely fast by the way.
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I thought description said 160 gig, but it shows 298 gig capacity when I open up system. I'm assuming it has a 300 gig drive. Excellent system so far..
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Morlok says: "I never gave it much thought so I checked mine. I have an 8GB Kingston elite pro card which actually has a 7.49GB capacity."Yup, that makes sense. I checked out my third one and it has the same as the other one, 7.46GB- so it must just be the space needed to format. It must be like regular Fat32 HD in a PC, (or NTFS for that matter), they both take up quite a bit of space just for the format.
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That's the correct capacity, manufacturers use *giga*bytes (multiples of 1000) as a measure of capacity while windows uses *gibi*bytes (multiples of 1024), so expect that difference to go up as rated capacities go up.
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You're not losing all that space to any "formatting", you're just prey to marketing and confusing computer lingo. Hard drive manufacturers dictate a 1GB as 1,000,000,000,000 bytes whereas Windows calculates 1GB it as 1,073,741,824. Technically speaking, windows version of GB really should be referred to as GiB rather than GB. A 500GB hard drive sold by Maxtor/WD/Seagate etc. will show in windows as 465.5 GB. Just as these 8GB cards show as 7.44GB. For simplifying, you can pretty much divide the stated capacity by 1.074 to see what you're actually going to get.
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Most drive manufacturers quote their product's capacity along the lines of "One megabyte equals 1,000 bytes times 1,000 bytes." However, all operating systems (that I am aware of) consider a megabyte to be 1,024 bytes times 1,024 bytes. A TB according to the drive manufacturer is therefore 1,000 x 1,000 x 1,000 x 1,000 (1,000,000,000,000 bytes) but your OS is thinking 1,024 x 1,024 x 1,024 x 1,024 (1,099,511,627,776 bytes). The 99,511,627,776 difference is in large part why your OS is reporting the drive to be smaller than the manufacturer's claim. There are, depending on manufacturer and OS, also losses due to formatting differences, allocation tables, utilities included on the disc itself, etc. Hope this helps.
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In the 32Gb there is usually about 18-20Gb and in the 64GB there is somewhat 40Gb
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I have returned this unit due to a block-out and honestly I can be 100% sure I do believe 32 GB is the maximum capacity you can have.
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The disk drive is Hybrid. Its in the middle of an SS drive and a standard drive. It uses SS memory as cache.