nightsurge on 18 June 2009
| thekitchensink said: Joystiq contacted them, and Microsoft confirmed it. They also said that not all of the storage will be usable, as the system software uses a portion of it. My question is: If you can fit all the system software in under 512 MBs, then where do you get off selling me a '20 gigabyte' hard drive that only has twelve gigabytes I can actually use? |
It's more like 14-16GBs and the reason is that they use the extra space for caching. That and the fact that a 20GB hard drive anywhere is only about 18-19GB as all hard drives are never their full amount (due to the issue of doubling memory and the fact that the actual measurements for data are not perfect 1000s, but 1024, etc).
I predict we will see HDD updates as well come August time which will likely be a move of at minimum, the 60GB > 80GB, 120GB > 160GB. Could even see a full doubline and go 60 > 120 and 120 > 250 
