Mintys1
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Q: Bought a 64gb ipad3 and it only states 57gb available? Is this right?

As title suggests, I am a bit miffed to have lost nearly 7gb before its even started....

My 16gb ipad2 only lost about 2gb...

Posted on Mar 24, 2012 4:02 AM

by a1000,Solvedanswer
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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.

Posted on Mar 24, 2012 4:07 AM

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

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  • by King_Penguin,Helpful

    King_Penguin King_Penguin Mar 24, 2012 4:06 AM in response to Mintys1
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    Mar 24, 2012 4:06 AM in response to Mintys1

    Yes, it is correct - mine shows 57.2 available.

  • by a1000,Solvedanswer

    a1000 a1000 Mar 24, 2012 4:07 AM in response to Mintys1
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    Mar 24, 2012 4:07 AM in response to Mintys1

    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.

  • by MichelPM,

    MichelPM MichelPM Mar 24, 2012 4:15 AM in response to Mintys1
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    Mar 24, 2012 4:15 AM in response to Mintys1

    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?

  • by King_Penguin,

    King_Penguin King_Penguin Mar 24, 2012 4:21 AM in response to MichelPM
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    Mar 24, 2012 4:21 AM in response to MichelPM

    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.

  • by stedman1,

    stedman1 stedman1 Mar 24, 2012 4:21 AM in response to MichelPM
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    Mar 24, 2012 4:21 AM in response to MichelPM

    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

  • by MichelPM,

    MichelPM MichelPM Mar 24, 2012 4:24 AM in response to MichelPM
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    Mar 24, 2012 4:24 AM in response to MichelPM

    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?

  • by MichelPM,

    MichelPM MichelPM Mar 24, 2012 4:37 AM in response to MichelPM
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    Mar 24, 2012 4:37 AM in response to MichelPM

    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.

  • by IdrisSeabright,

    IdrisSeabright IdrisSeabright Mar 24, 2012 4:42 AM in response to MichelPM
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    Mar 24, 2012 4:42 AM in response to MichelPM

    MichelPM wrote:

     

     

    Kinda of steep, don't ya think?

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

     

    Best of luck.

  • by TooDarkPark,

    TooDarkPark TooDarkPark Mar 24, 2012 4:44 AM in response to MichelPM
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    Mar 24, 2012 4:44 AM in response to MichelPM

    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.