400 gb of external drive space gone after fomatting

[maniek515]

I've had enough of my 500gb drive in ps4 so I grabbed 4tb external one (Seagate Backup Plus). Console did recognise it with no issues however diaplayed space before formatting was 4,08tb and 3,68tb after. 

Is it normal that so much space was taken just to makenit compatible with console's files? 

[Mike13858]

Yes, that is completely normal. The larger the hard drive, the more space gets taken. My 2TB HDD had 200GB taken off when I put it in my PS4.

Edited March 27, 2020 by Mike13858

[DesmaBR]

Yeah, that's perfectly normal.

 

A 4tb HDD I brought only gives me 3.63TB to use

[Masamune]

Yeah, my external 2TB has 1.84TB available. I've never seen a drive before that actually has the correct amount of storage on it though (you can look at this if you want the specifics): https://www.howtogeek.com/123268/windows-hard-drive-wrong-capacity/

 

It's funny though, because I was just taking with someone else about this very subject.

[maniek515]

Thanks for info guys. Not that it is any problem for me as I downloaded everything that I might have a slightest interest in playing and it took a little over 900gb. I'm starting to think 4tb was a bit of an overkill ?

[kidson2004]

Same thing happened to me as well. Glad I’m not alone lol j/k 

[Property_Damage]

no need to hoard everything youve ever purchased, delete the BS

[mackenzie129]

34 minutes ago, Property_Damage said:

no need to hoard everything youve ever purchased, delete the BS

At 8-10mb/s I think I'll personally stick to hoarding ?

[skateak]

That is normal. I think that is why Sony advertised the PS5 as having a 825GB SSD. Rather than saying it is 1TB.

[Masamune]

@maniek515 A 4TB drive will probably hold around 70+ games (& that's assuming they're all 50GB), so that should keep you going for a while. I wouldn't call it overkill though, especially when I've seen patchs that are around 100GB now.

 

@skateak Wait, I thought they did advertise it as a 825GB SSD? That's at least what I've heard a couple weeks ago (I know Xbox said theirs was going to be 1TB though). Nevermind, that's what you were saying, I read your post wrong. But I'm wondering if they are taking the difference into account, or it's actually going to be like 700GB or something when it comes out?

Edited March 27, 2020 by Masamune

[ArmoredSnowman]

31 minutes ago, mackenzie129 said:

At 8-10mb/s I think I'll personally stick to hoarding

Especially when games keep releasing updates/DLCs.

[Vive_ut_vivas]

To clarify you dont just lose 400GB on a 4TB drive.

The reason for the "loss" is the fact that harddrive manufacturers use 1000KB=1MB but most OSes use 1024KB=1MB

 

When formatting a 12TB drive on windows it shows 10,9TB usable.

Would be useful if harddrive manufacturers would at least put the 2 bases on the drive 4TB@1000KB/3,6TB@1024KB

Seen a lot of these discussions pas by in the years people get frustrated by the misleading information from manufacturers.