Why does capacity show 12.5 GB??
1608393
This is very typical, there are pre-installed apps such as safari, calender, photos, camera, etc. already downloaded from Apple which takes up the 3.5 gigabytes you are missing. That is why I always buy the 64gb iPads, (I own 5), and only 59gb is available. I believe all tablets and smartphones are like this. It's not that you are being ripped off, your iPad actually does have 16gb, it's just that 3.5gb are already pre-installed apps. Another example would be a 32gb iPad or smartphone would only have approx 28 or 29gb available, so this is very typical, not anything to get concerned about, The manufacturers have to use some gigabytes for the pre-installed apps. I hope this answers your question. This is very typical, there are pre-installed apps such as safari, calender, photos, camera, etc. already downloaded from Apple which takes up the 3.5 gigabytes you are missing. That is why I always buy the 64gb iPads, (I own 5), and only 59gb is available. I believe all tablets and smartphones are like this. It's not that you are being ripped off, your iPad actually does have 16gb, it's just that 3.5gb are already pre-installed apps. Another example would be a 32gb iPad or smartphone would only have approx 28 or 29gb available, so this is very typical, not anything to get concerned about,... » Read More This is very typical, there are pre-installed apps such as safari, calender, photos, camera, etc. already downloaded from Apple which takes up the 3.5 gigabytes you are missing. That is why I always buy the 64gb iPads, (I own 5), and only 59gb is available. I believe all tablets and smartphones are like this. It's not that you are being ripped off, your iPad actually does have 16gb, it's just that 3.5gb are already pre-installed apps. Another example would be a 32gb iPad or smartphone would only have approx 28 or 29gb available, so this is very typical, not anything to get concerned about, The manufacturers have to use some gigabytes for the pre-installed apps. I hope this answers your question. « Show Less
1608394
This is very typical, there are pre-installed apps such as safari, calender, photos, camera, etc. already downloaded from Apple which takes up the 3.5 gigabytes you are missing. That is why I always buy the 64gb iPads, (I own 5), and only 59gb is available. I believe all tablets and smartphones are like this. It's not that you are being ripped off, your iPad actually does have 16gb, it's just that 3.5gb are already pre-installed apps. Another example would be a 32gb iPad or smartphone would only have approx 28 or 29gb available, so this is very typical, not anything to get concerned about, The manufacturers have to use some gigabytes for the pre-installed apps. I hope this answers your question.
1608395
In case you didn't know, you can purchase more gb's through iCloud, for example 20gb for approx $1.06 per month, tax included. This is for your 16 gb iPad. So you still have options to add more gb's. I hope this helps...
1810267
Because some of the space is needed by the controller for SSD wear and caching. 120GB = 128GB, 240GB = 256GB, etc. The manufacturers mentioning the lower capacity aren't lying to you. The ones that say the larger capacity will say ~120GB Usable Capacity somewhere.Hope this helps!More info: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1371468
1377314
I do not why it says that but don't worry it is a 500GB hard drive. I have one myself.
166636
I noticed that the hard disk sizes were somewhat different as I looked at different systems. I chose one with a 750 gig hard disk. Plenty of free space.
639980
It is actually 8gb disguised as a 128 GB drive. Windows will report 128gb available but if you test it, it only holds 8gb.
147825
Do be honest I am not sure, but I downloaded a TON of stuff and simply moved to an SD card. I had no problems with space at all.
1097006
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.
876950
There is a difference between how drive manufacturers specify 32GB and how Windows specifies GB. Every storage device will specify more GB and Windows will always say less due to these differences. Not going to detail them out, as the math makes my head hurt. :P
1084364
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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They did not mean 12TB per bay, they meant 12TB total. Their claim of the unit's capacity was based on the hard drives available at the time.When this unit was released, the largest available hard drive was 3TB, so they claimed that the unit's capacity was 12TB (4 x 3). It can handle 4TB drives for sure. I suspect that Vantec's claim that it can handle 8TB (and likely 6TB) drives is true.
1293191
That I have no answer for. You may want to check applications under settings and choose all to see what is taking up all the space.
859974
Initial indication was 128 GB. It became totally unstable and could not be identified. This is piece of SH.. DO NOT BUY!!
1436424
My HDD IS 750GB and shows 698GB is available for use. It keeps 2 GB for partion table and addressing storing data. I don't thing that amount of space is normal to keep reserved for system usage. Try to talk to seller or do low level formating maybe that works for you. I am not sure what is wrong with your HDD.
360951
I got 500mb today and it's one with less dots. In the case it says 'Ultra-Portable Drive' instead of just 'Portable Drive'.
633415
The drive must be formatted with the FAT file system and then it works. This mean nothing over 32GB.
1554223
It shows up as two physical drives 0 and 1 at 1 TB ea, further partitioned into 500 GB ea C-D-E-F. Haven't pulled it apart to see if in fact they are separate drives. 100% screaming machine but the drives are probably 75% screaming.
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No storage device is exactly as its labeled. Whether it is a 32/64 or a 16GB device the actually actual amount of space will often be smaller that it is labeled.