I have a 2TB external drive that’s about a year old. I had alot of clutter on the drive, so i maxed my C drive out moving the files i’m keeping. I wiped everything else off and reformatted the drive, but before I started, I noticed it was showing that the drive was 1.8TB. I looked at it in system and it shows that there is 237MB of system files, but they don’t show, that doesn’t make up the missing space anyways. Anyone run into this problem? And yes I did look for hidden files… Lol
Two different ways of measuring.
2TB = 1.819TiB.
Hard Drives are sold as “Terabyte” – Windows (and other OS’s) report Tebibytes.
Wrong answer, didn’t need a math lesson, and it didn’t answer my question, but you got the WD points for it I guess. Does 2Tib equate to 1.81TB
Sorry, my equality up there was indeed in error. Edited the post. But typo error aside, the link I posted and the reason I explained was the correct answer.
Obviously, the OP never knew that the capacity of drives is “rounded up” to keep things simple. My 64GB new flash drive shows 63,xxx,xxx bytes and ALL 2tb drives show 1.8 TB. Brand new members here who don’t know what’s up should be less snarky!
