So, obviously i am not 100% sure about the terminology here, or even exactly how it works which is why i would be really grateful if someone who knows their stuff can tell me about it.
But i do know that all drives i’ve used throughtout the years will “reserve” some portion of the disk space that can’t be used for storage, meaning even after you reformat a 2 tb drive it might show something like 1.87/1.87 available space.
It was always my understanding that this unusable space just contains files that are required to actually use the drive and to be able to read/write on it.
However, recently i bought a WD Elements 8tb drive and after formatting it just now it shows 7,27/7,27 available space. That just seems absolutely crazy to me. That’s 730 gb its using, which is almost as much as my entire ssd C: drive i use for games/software/os.
Terabytes vs tebibytes conversion. Two different numbers representing the same amount of storage.
Hard drives are marketed in terabytes, while an OS like Windows measure them in tebibytes.
It’s misleading, yes, but is completely normal. You lose about 100gb per terabyte of actual storage in the conversion.