Fantom Titanium-II loses 69gb?

tophat · 06-28-2008, 08:42 AM

I just recently bought a Fantom Titanium-II 1TB external hard drive. I use a Mac, and I wanted to use this for Time Capsule as well as storing my files. Anyways, when I told Time Capsule to erase and format, it did, but I lost nearly 69GB of space! I now can hold 931GB as opposed to a terabyte. Is there anyway this can be fixed?

tophat · 06-28-2008, 08:57 AM

I think I actually solved this on my own. It has to do with the way drive manufacturers specify capacity. They calculate power like 10^3 bytes (1000), instead 2^10 bytes (1024). So, the bigger hard drive you have, the more loss of space you get after formatting. In my case, I lose nearly 13% of space!

06-28-2008, 08:42 AM	#1 (permalink)
tophat Registered User Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 8 OS: Mac OSX Leopard	Fantom Titanium-II loses 69gb? I just recently bought a Fantom Titanium-II 1TB external hard drive. I use a Mac, and I wanted to use this for Time Capsule as well as storing my files. Anyways, when I told Time Capsule to erase and format, it did, but I lost nearly 69GB of space! I now can hold 931GB as opposed to a terabyte. Is there anyway this can be fixed?

06-28-2008, 08:57 AM	#2 (permalink)
tophat Registered User Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 8 OS: Mac OSX Leopard	Re: Fantom Titanium-II loses 69gb? I think I actually solved this on my own. It has to do with the way drive manufacturers specify capacity. They calculate power like 10^3 bytes (1000), instead 2^10 bytes (1024). So, the bigger hard drive you have, the more loss of space you get after formatting. In my case, I lose nearly 13% of space!