Explanation of hard disk capacity, Explanation, Hard – Lenovo IdeaPad S9e -FR User Manual

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Explanation

of

hard

disk

capacity

Dear

user,

While

using

your

computer,

you

may

discover

that

the

nominal

hard

disk

capacity

indicated

is

somewhat

different

from

the

disk

capacity

displayed

by

the

operating

system.

For

example,

a

nominal

80

GB

hard

disk

will

appear

as

less

than

80

GB

in

the

operating

system.

This

discrepancy

is

not

an

error

in

hard

disk

installation

nor

any

other

problem,

but

a

normal

phenomenon

of

computers.

This

phenomenon

is

primarily

due

to

the

following

reasons:

1.

Different

standards

used

by

the

manufacturer

and

operating

system

when

calculating

hard

disk

capacity

Hard

disk

manufacturers

use

a

radix

of

1000,

i.e.

1

G

=

1,000

MB,

1

MB

=

1,000

KB,

1

KB

=

1,000

bytes.

However,

when

identifying

hard

disk

capacity,

operating

systems

use

a

radix

of

1024,

i.e.

1

GB

=

1,024

MB,

1

MB

=

1,024

KB,

1

KB

=

1,024

bytes.

The

standard

adopted

by

your

computer

is

that

of

the

hard

disk

manufacturers.

Since

the

standards

adopted

by

the

hard

disk

manufacturer

and

operating

system

are

different,

the

hard

disk

capacity

displayed

by

the

operating

system

will

be

different

from

the

nominal

hard

disk

capacity.

For

example,

if

the

hard

disk

is

nominally

X

G,

even

when

it

is

completely

empty,

the

capacity

displayed

by

the

operating

system

will

be:

X

Ч

1000

Ч

1000

Ч

1000/

(1024

Ч

1024

Ч

1024)

X

×

0.931

G.

Appendix

D.

Notices

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