available disk space after format 8tb hd

MocArt(2) · Feb 1, 2019

Hi

Can someone let me know how many free space should be available for games and apps after format 8tb hdd connected via usb3.0.

is this possible to have more than 7.2tb?

I got seagate 8tb family disk and after format a can use only 7,2tb. Same issue I found on attached photo (its captured from movie available on the internet)

:)

Dragonlord Brad

A lot of times this is very common with hardrives. When there are portioned ext the size is smaller then what is stated on the the enclosure.

Echo4Ent

That is a correct value. There is an article all about the reasons here, https://www.scienceabc.com/innovati...ss-space-than-advertised-when-plugged-in.html

RandyAU93

That sounds about right. Where hard drives are concerned, 8 terabytes is exactly 8 trillion bytes. For memory, it's actually 8.192 trillion, more or less. Between system storage space and that difference in computation, 7.2TB of actual storage sounds close
to right.

FrankTabarez

Thanks for the help and time. My 8TB Game HD is fine, the problem I am having is with my 5TB Media HD. XBOX can see it, unfortunately it says that there are no files and there is 0 space available? I have gone through all suggestions and still the same
problem. I have come across a few messages elsewhere about the HD being formatted NTFS and not FAT32. Well I tried using a 2TB (NTFS) HD and it was seen with all the movie files it carried.

8TB Game Drive............GOOD

2TB Movie Drive...........GOOD

5TB Movie Drive...........identified but not reading files...????

Thank you for the time and help

nthnu

Ok, I was thinking for PC, the hard drives usually end up around 18GB. So I was curios about the extra missing space.

available disk space after format 8tb hd