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TwoThreeSoFly on 28 July 2013
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ethomaz said:

teigaga said:

Well 77GB is reserved on the HDD (423GB available to users) but I'm not tech savy enough to know what it all means.Again, we should hopefully get answers at GDC.

It is not 77GB reserved...

The HDD manufacturers uses the 1000 notation to calc the size of HDD and not 1024 (the right)... so a 500GB HDD have 500,000,000,000 bytes and not 536,870,912,000 bytes.

If you convert to standard notation (1024) you have: 465.66 gigabytes

So 423GB available to users means 42GB reserved.

Unfortunately because of the way hard drives are marketed you are correct. I don't know if teigaga was attempting to make a negativ e point about the console but this is true in all situations when it comes to a standard hard drive. I am not as familiar with SSDs but both Xbox and PS4 will have a substantial part of the HDD reserved for the other stuff the consoles can do this gen. 



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