Bought a 64gb ipad3 and it only states 57gb available? Is this right?

Yes, it is correct - mine shows 57.2 available.

57.2 on mine. There are an increasing number of bundled apps etc which are eating into the memory. Not too much of a problem on a 64 gb version.

I noticed the same thing on my WiFi only new 64 GB iPad,too!

Mine also said, 57 GBs left.

I didn't think anything of it, but now that you brought up this issue, this does kinda suck.

I realize that iOS 5.1 does install more, default, apps than previous iOS versions.

This may or may not be eating up some of the storage space?

But 7 GBs worth?

If you only bought a new 16 GB model iPad, half of the storage capability would have been ate up by iOS?

I'd be pretty upset about that.

I'll ask the same thing. Is this normal or correct?

What is taking up 7 GBs of storage?

If this is not normal, can some of the storage be recovered?

Part of it is down to how a 'gig' is calculated - on the box it says that 1 gig is 1 billion bytes, but in Settings on the iPad I think that it shows it as 'proper' gigabytes. So it's not an actual 7 gig.

As well as some space being used by iOS and the built-in apps, I think that some is also lost by the formatting.

Perfectly normal. The discrepancy is more pronounced on larger drives, so the difference on a smaller capacity unit is much less. See below.

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2419

Stedman

Jeesh,

It's only 7 am here in the eastern part of the U.S. and you guys answered before I had a chance to even post the question.

Anyhoo...seems like a lot of storage gone from the get go.

More than 10% of storage capacity used on a 64GB model before actual normal usage.

Nearly,50% on a 16 GB model as well as almost 25% of the storage used on a 32GB model.

Kinda of steep, don't ya think?

OK Stedman,

I read that KB article and yeah, I knew about most of this, but didn't realize it gets more exaggerated or exacerbated on larger capacity drives.

Still...it's still a good chunk of storage lost to formatting, system software and pre-installed apps.

Would be happier if it were half the amount.

Just didn't register in my head right away that with the initial running of the iPad that everything gave up that amount of storage. That's like 3 extra movies or a slew of of pictures or video clips I won't have the room for.

MichelPM wrote:

Kinda of steep, don't ya think?

No, as stedman1 and King_Penguin explained, it's perfectly normal.

Best of luck.

On a 1TB drive, you really only get about 940GB or so. People who say it's because of all the extra apps are wrong, it as others mentioned above, how the OS calculates the space.

It is explained on any hard drive package that you buy at the store as well.