Questions & Answers Transcend StoreJet 25M3 1 TB External Hard Disk

How many GB's are in 1TB of memory? that means how many GB's will it show when I use it for my PC?

1TB=1000GB 1GB=1000MB But here is the deal, Manufacturer mention capacity as 10^(10 to the power) like for 1TB, it is 10^12 Bytes, that is 1000000000000 byte. But windows show capacity of storage device in 2^(power of two) that is 1KB=2^10 Bytes 1MB=2^10 KB 1GB=2^10 MB 1TB=2^10 GB That is windows will show 1TB if capactiy is 2^40Byte (which is 1024x1024x1024x1024=1099511627776byte) while 2^10 is 1000000000000Byte. Which is why windows show 931GB(10^12/2^30 Byte=10000000000/1073741824). And no its not used for drivers but file system do use few MBs to store partition and file details(MBR,EBR,MFT etc)

by sam | Apr 23, 2015

You will get 931 GB approximately.

by HK | Feb 28, 2015

1TB = 1000GB, ideally when you purchase any storage device few MB are consumed in driver files rest storage capacity is meant for customer's personal data storage. So do not worry go ahead purchasing.

by Arpita | Feb 13, 2015

1TB=1024GB BUT YOU GET 990 GB

by Ritwik Rout | Apr 11, 2016

sai

by sai | Aug 08, 2016