I saw some reviews that say it only has about 1,760gb. Last I checked 2TB was 2048gb. Why is it 300gb short? most HDDs are 20-50gb short, but 300?
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Everything in digital world should be a power of "2" in their root ( "0" and "1"s, only two numbers). 1000 is not! So when you go from Byte to KiloByte, you have to divide the number with "1024" not "1000". Same thing happens when you go from Kilobyte to Megabyte to Gigabyte to Terabyte. When you buy a 2TB HDD you actually buy a 2000000000000byte drive and if you divide it with 1024 four times you get ~1.81TB. That's the real capacity it has! About the PS4; the drive is ~1862Gigabytes according to this calculation so if it shows 1760GB then you're missing ~102GBs of space. If PS4 reserves that amount for the system then there's nothing wrong with the drive...
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Hard drives are sold using non-computer size measurements for some odd reason. A 2TB drive is not 2048 GB, but 2000 GB... And the GB they are using is only 1000 MB and so on. Also, that is the UNFORMATTED SIZE. if you think of a hard drive as a parking garage, you can think of formatting as painting the lines for the fairways and parking spaces. While the garage would hold more cars if you didn't set aside space for the lanes, it wouldn't be very usable. Likewise, without formatting the drive, it won't have things like the directory structures that the computer needs to find the files stored on it. Hard drives are sold using non-computer size measurements for some odd reason. A 2TB drive is not 2048 GB, but 2000 GB... And the GB they are using is only 1000 MB and so on. Also, that is the UNFORMATTED SIZE. if you think of a hard drive as a parking garage, you can think of formatting as painting the lines for the fairways and parking spaces. While the garage would hold more cars if you didn't set aside space for the lanes, it wouldn't be very usable. Likewise, without formatting the drive, it won't have things like the directory structures that the computer needs to find the... » Read More Hard drives are sold using non-computer size measurements for some odd reason. A 2TB drive is not 2048 GB, but 2000 GB... And the GB they are using is only 1000 MB and so on. Also, that is the UNFORMATTED SIZE. if you think of a hard drive as a parking garage, you can think of formatting as painting the lines for the fairways and parking spaces. While the garage would hold more cars if you didn't set aside space for the lanes, it wouldn't be very usable. Likewise, without formatting the drive, it won't have things like the directory structures that the computer needs to find the files stored on it. « Show Less
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I can't believe that people are still asking this question. How many decades have we had hard disk drive storage? This should be basic knowledge by now... and there is always Google.
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Cheap ass laziness is what the real reason is. Years ago, in the land far far awy when the first guy decided to short changed consumers by going with the percent round "down" numbers 1000, or 1,000,000 - everyone follows and no one dare waste the extra space as once the balls rolls, it rolled for about 30 years now. So laziness and cheap ass is what the real reason is.Everyone knows it's 1024 * 1024 * 1024 but in reality, in terms of hard drives, it has always been percentage less. FREAKING normal. Not that I have toe fungus but even toe fungus knows the answers to this question. Cheap ass laziness is what the real reason is. Years ago, in the land far far awy when the first guy decided to short changed consumers by going with the percent round "down" numbers 1000, or 1,000,000 - everyone follows and no one dare waste the extra space as once the balls rolls, it rolled for about 30 years now. So laziness and cheap ass is what the real reason is.Everyone knows it's 1024 * 1024 * 1024 but in reality, in terms of hard drives, it has always been percentage less. FREAKING normal. Not that I have toe fungus but even toe fungus knows the answers to... » Read More Cheap ass laziness is what the real reason is. Years ago, in the land far far awy when the first guy decided to short changed consumers by going with the percent round "down" numbers 1000, or 1,000,000 - everyone follows and no one dare waste the extra space as once the balls rolls, it rolled for about 30 years now. So laziness and cheap ass is what the real reason is.Everyone knows it's 1024 * 1024 * 1024 but in reality, in terms of hard drives, it has always been percentage less. FREAKING normal. Not that I have toe fungus but even toe fungus knows the answers to this question. « Show Less
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This is a frequent questions from computer newbies. For the past 25+ years or so, disk storage has been exclusively represented in power of 10 units. This is because this is how people, including modern programmers, think. It's easier to do math on in decimal than in binary. Those that internally use binary and code in assembler know that there are fewer than 0b10000000000000000000000000000000000000000 bytes.
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There's a file allocation table that takes up space on all hard drives, bigger the drive the bigger the table.
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Everything in digital world should be a power of "2" in their root ( "0" and "1"s, only two numbers). 1000 is not! So when you go from Byte to KiloByte, you have to divide the number with "1024" not "1000". Same thing happens when you go from Kilobyte to Megabyte to Gigabyte to Terabyte. When you buy a 2TB HDD you actually buy a 2000000000000byte drive and if you divide it with 1024 four times you get ~1.81TB. That's the real capacity it has! About the PS4; the drive is ~1862Gigabytes according to this calculation so if it shows 1760GB then you're missing ~102GBs of space. If PS4 reserves that amount for the system then there's nothing wrong with the drive... Everything in digital world should be a power of "2" in their root ( "0" and "1"s, only two numbers). 1000 is not! So when you go from Byte to KiloByte, you have to divide the number with "1024" not "1000". Same thing happens when you go from Kilobyte to Megabyte to Gigabyte to Terabyte. When you buy a 2TB HDD you actually buy a 2000000000000byte drive and if you divide it with 1024 four times you get ~1.81TB. That's the real capacity it has! About the PS4; the drive is ~1862Gigabytes according to this calculation so if it shows 1760GB then... » Read More Everything in digital world should be a power of "2" in their root ( "0" and "1"s, only two numbers). 1000 is not! So when you go from Byte to KiloByte, you have to divide the number with "1024" not "1000". Same thing happens when you go from Kilobyte to Megabyte to Gigabyte to Terabyte. When you buy a 2TB HDD you actually buy a 2000000000000byte drive and if you divide it with 1024 four times you get ~1.81TB. That's the real capacity it has! About the PS4; the drive is ~1862Gigabytes according to this calculation so if it shows 1760GB then you're missing ~102GBs of space. If PS4 reserves that amount for the system then there's nothing wrong with the drive... « Show Less
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Actually the difference is in the metric, Terabyte is not equal to Tebibyte. Terabyte = 1000 Gigabytes. Usually confuse the all final users. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibyte.
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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.
1930257
This unit has a 1TB HDD. The 1GB listed is an error. A request has been made to have it corrected.
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It's not a drive, just an enclosure. As of today looks like maximum 2.5" drive size is 2 TB but the key is making sure the drive isn't more than 12.5mm tall as that's the biggest that will fit in this enclosure. Some 2.5" 2 TB drives are smaller than 12.5mm and some aren't.
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just like you i'm not a tech savvy but this item is working perfect on my ps4and 1.5 tb is better than 1tb ;) (the 500gb from my ps4, I installed it on my ps3)
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I ordered the 2TB model, and it came without a drive. I imagine that there is something incorrectly listed in the 2TB model listing.
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I believe by default they come in a RAID 1, which would give you 2TB of total storage. If you set it to RAID0, you'll get use of all 4TB (probably 3.6 or so useable) but you will not have redundancy.
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The 2TB version should include a 2TB 2.5" HDD inside. As you've seen, there are other versions that have a 1TB drive, or a 500 MB drive. This is "user serviceable" so you can switch it out with a different 2TB 2.5" HDD.
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It's 1000GB HDD. I think they meant 1TB. I replaced mine with an SSD instead though. And it's 2GB Graphics Memory.
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The manual doesn't say. I used a 1TB drive and it worked fine. You can add 2 external drives, but no mention of size limit there. You can map it as a network drive, so you can move content back and forth that way, but slower ofc.
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my t400 came with a 160 gb hard drive which is one of the stock hard drive sizes originally available . it is probably a typo
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Depends on what youre trying to store. Typically, for normal/average use, then it should be fine for quite some time. A full computer backup, without any files, is about 13GB of space. I purchased the 2TB...the bigger the better. But, I store a lot of movies, TV shows, and music.
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If you are trying to use this as an internal HDD, you might want to double check on the size there. That's a 3.5" HDD commonly used in desktops; unless you were planning on using this drive in an external HDD rig I would suggest you look into the 2.5" HDDs. *Suggestion: go with &lt;Western Digital Bare Drives 2.5 Inch, Low Profile, 5400 RPM, SATA II, 8MB Cache 500GB Mobile Hard Drive, Blue WD5000LPVT&gt; it's only $3 more ($43.99) than that desktop HDD for double the capacity.
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Actually, disregard my previous response. I had this drive, but it was a 2TB model, not 3TB. There's a limit of 2.19TB for older Windows version (including Win 7) unless you have hardware that supports GPT partitioning, which I honestly don't know much about at this time. I'd recommend going with a 2TB version to be on the safe side.
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No idea -- it ships with two SSD drives that equal roughly 250GB of storage. I was wondering that too when I bought it, but it seems that whoever wrote the page made a mistake.
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All I can tell you is that I had this drive for 6 months and it works perfectly, it is 1.5TB. Again I can't compare because I have not owned the 1TB Blue SATA
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Looks like the size question got answered already, after using it for a few months it seems the C drive is really just supposed to be 100% for your operating system. The system will boot/restart in a matter of seconds. the 1TB 5400RPM Hard Drive has plenty of capacity to store everything else.