Missing over 20% of Dell SSD drive

[bobleonard]

I just got a Dell Venue 11 tablet.

The specification is 4 GB DDR3 memory and 128 GB eMMC Solid State Storage.

My C-drive is 101GB. What happen to 27GB? My searching indicates that a small
amount may be used for some OS functions but over 20 % seems extremely excessive.
The truth is: I don’t know.
Thanks for any enlightenment on this subject,
BobL

 

[rclarke250]

no mystery, it is in how they determine what a GB to be. My 480GB SSD shows 479,999,287,296 bytes. So they sell this as a 480GB drive, but windows doesn't see byte as the same thing. Debate has been going on along time. Here is a 2005 article on spiceworks that will explain it all to you. Link. But what it boils down to, is a company can use the 1,000 bits to a kilobit, and not 1024 bits to a kilobit, and factor out from there. You will see if they use the 1,000 it seems to be a larger drive, and they can claim that in the selling of the drive.

 

[bobleonard]

Thanks for the information. As I understand it: The 128-GB from Dell is actually 119.2-GIB.

Windows is reporting 101-GIB. Still, 18-GIB short. Less than I thought but still missing about 1/5
of what I thought I purchased???

BobL

 

[goombawaho]

Look at the partition information on the hard drive. Is there a Dell System partition area taking up space? A recovery partition?

"Living tomorrow is everyone's sorrow.
Modern man's daydreams have turned into nightmares.

 

[rclarke250]

Also the partition may be hidden, so you might need better tools than what windows provides to be able to see it.

 

[xwb]

Login as a sys admin. From a cmd prompt, type

diskmgmt.msc

It will give you the capacities of all the partitions

 

[bobleonard]

Thanks for all the info. FYI the partition information locates the missing GIB. I can't believe I forgot about partitions. In need to quit programming and start reading some of these Forums. BobL