Viper187

If it's the OS, that makes it even less efficient than Winblows.

Anubis2005X

How much of the 40 GBs do you actually get? Do these companies still round up? For example, my 30 GB iPod only has about 27 GB of total space on it...

Viper187

37GB. there's 31 free. They don't round up. The asshole manufacturers count 1000MB as a GB, whereas windows and other operating systems count 1GB as 1024MB (metric vs binary?). You'd think they'd get with the fuckin program by now. I suppose it's like hot dogs; 10 in the pack, but buns only come 8 in a pack. It makes no sense, but it never changes.

sg2386

The PS3 puts aside about 6GB for their OS, so its normal. I wondered the same thing when i first bought mine then asked someone.

You can always upgrade the hard drive, i upgraded my 60GB to 160GB, was thinking of putting a 320GB when PSN offers downloadable movies.

GogoTheMimic

Speaking of changing out the HDD, I remember hearing you can somehow image the drive so you don't lose any of your data when swapping to a larger HDD. Anyone hear how to do this? I'm considering upping my 60gb to something else as well.

sg2386

When you upgrade your hard drive, it formats itself when detecting it, i think the only things you lose is the game saves, which you can back up using USB pen drive, and i think your photos and music. I am not sure about demos if you lose them or not, but don't think you do since they're linked to your account. All your other settings stay the same.

Supermallet

No clue why this is in HD Talk. Moving it to Video Game Talk.

Baron Of Hell

Maybe he was using it as just a bluray / media player.

uncle-frank

x360 does the same thing, you dont get 20 gigs when you buy it its something like 13 or 12.

its normal, but they just dont come out and tell you