Can anyone explain the math that used with ext hard drives makes no sense to me; am I getting robbed?
I get an ext HD which is 2 TB but after I hook it up all it says is 1.81 TB; now that's a huge cut right off that bat and I don t see how its getting wasted; so what with that ?
So only have a 280 g hd on my laptop here so transferring some of the desktop to the ext Hd.
As of now I have these numbers and numbers and nothing matchs so what am I missing ? ?
Used space - 551,616,761,856 / 513 gigs
Free space - 1,448,676,237,321 / 1.31 gigs
Do you see that huge difference - 551 / 513 and 144 / 1.31; whets with that where are all these gigs going and can I recover them ? ?
Lastly if I add or subtract say a 5 gig file from the ext hard drive shouldn't the free space or used space keep moving up or down or something somewhere be moving ? Think I am looking at the wrong set of numbers; so what do I need to keep my eyes on ?
Not user friendly the numbers; thanks need a math teacher hehe . .
I get an ext HD which is 2 TB but after I hook it up all it says is 1.81 TB; now that's a huge cut right off that bat and I don t see how its getting wasted; so what with that ?
So only have a 280 g hd on my laptop here so transferring some of the desktop to the ext Hd.
As of now I have these numbers and numbers and nothing matchs so what am I missing ? ?
Used space - 551,616,761,856 / 513 gigs
Free space - 1,448,676,237,321 / 1.31 gigs
Do you see that huge difference - 551 / 513 and 144 / 1.31; whets with that where are all these gigs going and can I recover them ? ?
Lastly if I add or subtract say a 5 gig file from the ext hard drive shouldn't the free space or used space keep moving up or down or something somewhere be moving ? Think I am looking at the wrong set of numbers; so what do I need to keep my eyes on ?
Not user friendly the numbers; thanks need a math teacher hehe . .