232-10-60=149????

[Perversion]

So I put a new 250 gig HDD into my PS3, replacing its 60 gig. Like Mora, I was unaware of my own strength, as I stripped the heads of the screws all to s***, and my roommate needed a special tool to take them out. In any case, so I replace the hard drive, format it, partition it (I left a 10 gig partition if I ever decide to install Linux), and then reinstall all my backup data I had put on an external hard drive.


Here's my question, though...so the hard drive is listed at 232 gigs after the partition/format. Assuming that's the entire HDD space, including the partition (which is a big assumption), you subtract 10 gigs for the partition, and then let's call it 60 gigs for my backup data (I had pretty well maxed out my 60 gigs' space, and I know it was not EXACTLY 60 gigs of data, but let's call it that to make things easy), and you subtract that, you SHOULD get162 gigs free space. I looked at my system info, and it says I only have 149 gigs left. What happened to the other 13 gigs?


Help me out here, guys.

[Loki]

Re: 232-10-60=149????

The correct answer is PS3.

[marcus]

Re: 232-10-60=149????

You're actually missing about 22gb of space.

1024mb = 1gb

Formatted Space: 237568 mb
Partitioned Space: 10240 mb
Transfered Files: 61440 mb

Total Space You Should Have: 175104
Your Current Total Space: 152676

Space Missing: 22428 = 21.9gb

Does the PS3 use 20gb for backup or firmware???

[Zeroth]

Re: 232-10-60=149????

I read somewhere that even though you may have (for example) an 80 gig HDD, the electronic components reads it differently (something like 920mb make up 1gig instead of 1024mb). That might be your problem, and if it is, it's nothing to worry about. If your still really concerned about it, PM JLaCroix. That guy knows just about everything about PCs.

[American Hero]

Re: 232-10-60=149????

PS3s can't do math, that's why they aren't considered calculators.

[Perversion]

Re: 232-10-60=149????

If PS3s can't do math as you claim, then what do you think they are REALLY doing when they are Folding@home?

[gray]

Re: 232-10-60=149????

biology?

[Perversion]

Re: 232-10-60=149????

I'm the operator with my PS3-sized calculator.

[DarkwingChuck]

Re: 232-10-60=149????

If PS3s can't do math as you claim, then what do you think they are REALLY doing when they are Folding@home?

I always assumed it folded things. Like clothes and letters. Maybe the occassional origami swan.

[Jeroak Nelave]

Re: 232-10-60=149????

There is nothing wrong with your PS3, it is no different with a PC. I have a 300 gig hard drive in my PC, and it shows the total size of the hard drive being 279gigs. It is normal, it has to do with individual bits and how they all add together to make larger file sizes.

[Stormy]

Re: 232-10-60=149????

Actually, its the file management system.

Your File Allocation Table (the FAT in FAT16 and FAT32) takes up more space the larger your partition, and the larger your possible file size.

For instance, with an NTFS format a 160g hard drive only has 147g. I've also noticed that a file's size, and its size on disk are two separate properties, with the size on disk always being larger.

[Perversion]

Re: 232-10-60=149????

I think Jeroak and Stormy are missing my point. I obviously know that a partition and the initial format are gonna give me lost hard drive space. I already accounted for that when I said it was a 250 GB, and it's giving me 232. THAT much I understand. And technically, if the old HDD was a 60 gig, there would have been considerably less that 60 gigs I backed up and transferred over. Actually let's call it 52 gigs, due to file allocation and whatnot. So really, 232-52, which equals 180, as I'm guessing now that I think about it, the extra 10+ gigs would not show up as available drive space on the PS3's part of the partition. So NOW we're missing 31 'm worried I gigs. Here I thought 250 gigs would be a big enough hard drive. I'm worried I might run out of room.


Oh, wait...I've got an external 500 gig sitting right next to it.

[Stormy]

Re: 232-10-60=149????

I've also noticed that a file's size, and its size on disk are two separate properties, with the size on disk always being larger.

That. The difference between the two properties seems to be a geometric function.