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Total capacity for X25-m 160GB G2 going down?

idata
Esteemed Contributor III

I could've sworn windows 7 used to report the drive had a total capacity of 149GB, but it now says 148GB? Am I going crazy?

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idata
Esteemed Contributor III

On my MacBook Pro, I have this capacity:

X25-M 160GB G2 (FW:02HD):

Capacity: 159.7 GB (159,697,911,808 bytes)

idata
Esteemed Contributor III

Up until the last byte I got the same capacity as you have.

idata
Esteemed Contributor III

I do show capacity as precisely 159,934,050,304 bytes (148 GB) as well.

I haven't tracked if firmware updates or Windows Updates or anything may have altered that over time though.

idata
Esteemed Contributor III

You are missing almost exactly 100 MB because by default Windows 7 creates a system reserved partition of this size on a boot disk that was not formatted prior to the first install. It will do this with any fresh drive regardless of whether it is an SSD or mechanical. I'm running my 160 GB as a secondary with 160,038,097,904 bytes capacity and if you do the math the difference between your number is 99.9992 MB but we'll call it a round 100 MB : )