available disk space after format 8tb hd

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.

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

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.

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

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