Why is the 250 GB hard disk having less than 233 GB?

Why is the 250 GB hard disk having less than 233 GB?

Why is the 250GB hard disk having less than 233 GB?

All Hard Disk manufacturer way regarding counting space is different from the way a software count a space. This means toward a Hard Disk Manufacturer, 1 GB is 1000 MB, 1 MB is 1000 KB furthermore so on. Software or computer language recognize a space in terms regarding power regarding 2 say 21, 22,23 etc. hence a KB is 210 Bytes which is 1024 Bytes.

Lets do a little math:

From a Manufacturer a 250 GB hard disk is

250 x 1000 x 1000 x 1000 =250000000000 Bytes

From the Computer Language point regarding look a 250000000000 Bytes is:

250000000000/(1024*1024*1024) =232.83 GB

Now you'll see why your 250GB hard disk has only less than 232.83 GB space in total. Well if you go with higher space like 500GB furthermore so at the space missing is increasing