PS4 HDD will have 408GB of usable storage

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irstupid said:

BasilZero said:

irstupid said:
I hate how the label is never correct, and why is it always like a percentage and not some number

Why does my 2 tb disc need like 100 gb to be ready, yet my 250 gb one only need 30. Why aren't they both 30?

It's like the whole prize winning in game shows. Would love it if when they said you won 1,000 that mean AFTER TAX 1,000.

Why couldn't they give it a 600 gb harddrive and label it as a 500 gb. Or why is it labeled 500 when there is no way you can ever make it 500, its really only 410, so why not label it 410?

But anyone who expected 500 gb doesn't know tech at all. I could have told anyone it was closer to 400 than 500. As I said above, for some reason the higher the hdd is teh more space gets removed for some stupid ass reason.

http://www.howtogeek.com/123268/

Ah so they use a different method of conversion basically.  Computer reads a gb as 1024, while hdd 1000.    So a 1024 gb HDD would be seen on pc as only 1000 gb.  

Like you buy a Metric HDD and yet your computer reads it in American.

Stupid.  One of them shoudl change, its annoying.  

Well. A "1 Terabyte" hard drive reads as 931GB, 2 Terabyte drive read's as 1.81 Terabytes, 3 Terabyte drive reads as 2.72 Terabytes. (I have to many Hard Drives and not enough space!)

A long time ago in techland people actually filed a class action lawsuit against drive manufacturers for how they label drive sizes, nothing ever changed though.
They need to use powers of 1024 for advertising drive sizes, not powers of 1000, then they will match the rest of the industry.

As for the drive usage, keep in mind a massive chunk of that is possibly for caching purposes.