Seagate IronWolf
10 TB, 3.5"
Question about Seagate IronWolf
10000GB And then what does Windows say? Is it a usable 10000GB or actually ONLY 9200GB or something? (I know that everyone "cheats" is not your fault!) Can someone please tell me .....
Helpful answer
"Cheating" is relative. Windows simply does not calculate directly with the power of 10 of Giga, but with another. To explain it would probably go beyond the scope of this article.
Effectively, you should get 950000 DISPLAYED here. I would like to point out that this is a NAS HDD, which was not made for PC use.
"Windows simply does not calculate directly with the power of 10 of Giga but with a different one".
Correct, Windows calculates CORRECTLY with 1024 (computer-technically justified, 2^xyz gives 1024 at some point but never 1000 - the computer works binary, not decimal!), while the manufacturers calculate with 1000, which I would also call cheating. They simply define 1024=1000...