Browsing articles tagged with " Capacity"
Aug
24
2010
24
2010
Formatted capacity confusion clarified
From time to time some meticulous customer will ask us how come a fresh formatted hard disk or RAID array volume is smaller than the nominal capacity. For example when you format a 1TB hard disk the resulting drive appears to have 931 GB even though the hard disk label claims 1000GB. Where is the “missing” 69GB? The problem is much more pronounced if someone formats a 16TB RAID volume and instead of the expected [...]
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