I bought a dedicated server with 1TB but is only 925GB

MoneySP

Should I complain or is something usual?

I can make any partitions I want but is restricted to 925GB.

I remember buying disks and losing few GB per announced TB, but in this case is 75GB in just 1000 GB.

NobodyInteresting

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/1-tb-931-gb-hard-drive/

AC_Fan

Physical disk? 1TB ~ 910GiB, I believe.

MoneySP

I guess is physical disk. It is 931GB before partitioning, but I can only partition up to 926 (currently 922+4)

SlingHost

When you say you bought the dedicated server, did you buy the physical server or did you buy it through a web hosting provider?

MoneySP

@SlingHost said:
When you say you bought the dedicated server, did you buy the physical server or did you buy it through a web hosting provider?

Through a dedicated server provider.

Sorry for my english, maybe buying is not the correct word, is more like rent?

tetech

Show fdisk -l

Falzo

I suggest googling for Terabyte, Gigabyte and Gibibyte.
while people have been used to use 1024 as factor back in the days when talking of Kilobyte or Megabyte this changed over time to reflect Kilo=1000 and mega=1000000, hence new prefixes where needed, Mebi/Gibi etc.

disk vendors obviously took advantage immediately and sell you 1 Terabyte which then is 1000000000000 byte. while this of course should be 1000 Gigabyte your linux system most likely will still divide by factors of 1024 and show you Gibibyte instead...

1TB then suddenly becomes ~931 GiB, though the software might still name it GB. no error in that.

smartctl might show you more detailed numbers about sector size and amount of sectors so you can do the math.

MoneySP

@tetech said:
Show fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xxxxxxxxxx

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 411647 409600 200M 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 411648 1934878719 1934467072 922.4G 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 1934878720 1943267327 8388608 4G 83 Linux

raindog308

@consumer_justice

WebProject

Definitely missold, open PayPal dispute and claim your money back or a proper size hard disk as looking at all PC/Laptops/Mobile phones all these companies are do missell

tetech

@MoneySP said:

@tetech said:
Show fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xxxxxxxxxx

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 411647 409600 200M 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 411648 1934878719 1934467072 922.4G 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 1934878720 1943267327 8388608 4G 83 Linux

Disk is 1000204886016 bytes. They're selling that as 1TB since it is > 1000000000000 bytes, like Falzo said.

Moopah

If they advertised 1 TB and not 1 TiB, then there is no issue.

Falzo

@Moopah said:
If they advertised 1 TB and not 1 TiB, then there is no issue.

this.