XBOX 360 120 GB drive = 103 GB?

[Kid Ice]

IIRC the 20 GB drive had about 13 GB free. So I would think logically the 120 GB drive would have 113 GB free (the missing 7 GB is used for Xbox emulation, right).

What gives? Looking through the folders the only additional items I see are a few videos and demos, maybe 2 or 3 gigs total.

[RugalSizzler]

Hard drives depending on format will have a certain mulitple.

Also if the hard Drive is needed to power up and play certain games then the ard Drive would have some kind of important info on it unless I am wrong.

I would get whichever one and upgrade to a solid state drive using some kind of tutorial. That is just my input.

[Vectorman0]

EDIT - Nevermind my previous post that was here. I though this topic was about regular xbox, not 360 (the title doesn't say it)

Here is your answer:

The "120GB" is really less after you do the math.

((120000000000/1024)/1024)/1024=111.758709

((~112-7)-2)=103

[Kid Ice]

EDIT - Nevermind my previous post that was here. I though this topic was about regular xbox, not 360 (the title doesn't say it)

Here is your answer:

The "120GB" is really less after you do the math.

((120000000000/1024)/1024)/1024=111.758709

((~112-7)-2)=103

So when they say "120 GB" they don't mean 120GB, rather 120000000000 bytes? Yet the the three partitions are "really" measured in gigabytes?

[shadowkn55]

Vectorman0 hit the mark. In a nutshell, the hard drive capacity will be 7% less than what it says on the box and about 7-8 gb is used by the xbox for the C, E, X, Y, and Z drives.

The 7% loss is not due to formatting which is a common mistake. It is due to manufacturers using SI units instead of computer units.

[Vectorman0]

So when they say "120 GB" they don't mean 120GB, rather 120000000000 bytes? Yet the the three partitions are "really" measured in gigabytes?

Yeah, whenever they say XXXGB on a hard drive, they are basically saying xxx *1000^3 bytes. And I'm not sure about the partitions and math regarding them, I made that up as it seems to work out given what you mentioned.