new hardrive missing space

I purchased and installed a new hard drive recently, and it only registered as 930bg when it is in fact a 1tb drive.
anyone have any ideas were the space may have gone? i know some can be lost for the drives person activities or in formatting.... but 70gb?

thanks

 

When you format the drive you will loose space

For a 1TB 70 GB is normal.

My 1TB shows up at 931gb

 

Mine is also showing 931gb

 

wow thats sorta insane.
is there any specific reason for that? i imagine they would be short a warning when its a oem product, but is there ever one that is truely a tb? its still 930gb for 70$ so im pleased, but might need a disclaimer on that thing

 

Yes. Manufacturers use 1000 kb as 1 mb, 1000 mb as 1 gb and 1000 gb as 1 tb when in fact all the values should be 1024. The more conversions you do, the more space "appears" to be lost. So when they quote 1tb on the box, it is not 1tb.

 

how nice of them... guess i should be glad that i still got a deal, and its still a lot more space then i hope i need.

thanks for the replies.

 

Also there is space taken up by the hard drive management that sets up the drive in the first place

 

$70.?
Thats less than I paid for a 160GB IDE drive a couple of months ago.
Yes, you got a GOOD deal.

 

think i usually saw the 1tb on newegg for around 100, so 70 with free shipping def seemed to inspire a purchase.
i cant say for sure, but i think the space it has freed up has made things like defrags easier. running auslogics defrag before seemed to have no result and showed most of my computer as fragmented.although strangely some of the areas that the defrag said it fixed since the last restart do seem to pop up the next time around.