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Originally Posted by stumped
ok but bottom line is customer buys a 1TB drive, installs it, windows tells them they have ~930Mb, customer feels ripped off, writes a bad review or send it back...
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Unfortunately true. However all a drive maker can do is say formatted capacity is less. Which they do. The amount free depends on partition type, filesystem type and how much if any is used by EFI if it's a boot drive.
I think I posted on one of the Libra threads how much space there is before the books are added. I've never seen a phone or tablet advertise the real free space, only total RAM and Flash. Some can't upgrade to a newer Android because there isn't even enough free space when new!