![]() ![]() I noticed just now that this was apparently for MacOS though, and I believe Macs have switched to using the same 1,000-based prefixes as hard drives when referring to file sizes and drive capacities.Īnd if these files were in fact copied from a 3TB drive, then any potential difference like that should apply to that drive as well, and there should still be at least 1TB of usable space available (or at least 931GB as reported by Windows), not just 270GB. ![]() It's the same amount of usable space, just referred to in a different way. A 4TB drive should have approximately 4,000,000,000,000 bytes of storage, but Windows uses the kilo, mega, giga, and tera prefixes to refer to groups of 1024, resulting in such a drive appearing as having a little under 3.64TB to Windows. Click to expand.That was my first thought too.
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