Formated drive is not fully empty
I used Gparted to delete the partitions on a HDD as for some reason had used data on it however, after restarting my system it says my unallocated 4TB drive is only 3.64TB.
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I used Gparted to delete the partitions on a HDD as for some reason had used data on it however, after restarting my system it says my unallocated 4TB drive is only 3.64TB.
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I used Gparted to delete the partitions on a HDD as for some reason had used data on it however, after restarting my system it says my unallocated 4TB drive is only 3.64TB.
partition hard-disk gparted
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I used Gparted to delete the partitions on a HDD as for some reason had used data on it however, after restarting my system it says my unallocated 4TB drive is only 3.64TB.
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3.64 TiB is 4 TB.
The drive is 4 TB big, i.e 4*1000^4 bytes. This is the same as 3.638*1024^4 bytes, or approximately 3.64 TiB.
Disk manufacturers use GB and TB (metric) when writing their sizes. Many software applications, including gparted, use GiB and TiB (binary) instead, due to tradition.
Related:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tebibyte
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3.64 TiB is 4 TB.
The drive is 4 TB big, i.e 4*1000^4 bytes. This is the same as 3.638*1024^4 bytes, or approximately 3.64 TiB.
Disk manufacturers use GB and TB (metric) when writing their sizes. Many software applications, including gparted, use GiB and TiB (binary) instead, due to tradition.
Related:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tebibyte
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Ah so I'm just stupid and didn't notice TiB, thanks.
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3.64 TiB is 4 TB.
The drive is 4 TB big, i.e 4*1000^4 bytes. This is the same as 3.638*1024^4 bytes, or approximately 3.64 TiB.
Disk manufacturers use GB and TB (metric) when writing their sizes. Many software applications, including gparted, use GiB and TiB (binary) instead, due to tradition.
Related:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tebibyte
answered 4 hours ago
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Ah so I'm just stupid and didn't notice TiB, thanks.
– Da google
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3.64 TiB is 4 TB.
The drive is 4 TB big, i.e 4*1000^4 bytes. This is the same as 3.638*1024^4 bytes, or approximately 3.64 TiB.
Disk manufacturers use GB and TB (metric) when writing their sizes. Many software applications, including gparted, use GiB and TiB (binary) instead, due to tradition.
Related:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tebibyte
answered 4 hours ago
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3.64 TiB is 4 TB.
The drive is 4 TB big, i.e 4*1000^4 bytes. This is the same as 3.638*1024^4 bytes, or approximately 3.64 TiB.
Disk manufacturers use GB and TB (metric) when writing their sizes. Many software applications, including gparted, use GiB and TiB (binary) instead, due to tradition.
Related:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tebibyte
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Ah so I'm just stupid and didn't notice TiB, thanks.
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Ah so I'm just stupid and didn't notice TiB, thanks.
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Ah so I'm just stupid and didn't notice TiB, thanks.
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Ah so I'm just stupid and didn't notice TiB, thanks.
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