formatted capacity

1. 1.

   (computer science) the usable capacity of a disk drive; the amount of space that is left after the sector headings and boundary definitions and timing information have been added by formatting the disk

   Broadercapacity

   computer science

Questions about formatted capacity

What does formatted capacity mean?

formatted capacity means "(computer science) the usable capacity of a disk drive; the amount of space that is left after the sector headings and boundary definitions and timing information have been added by formatting the disk".

Is formatted capacity a common word?

formatted capacity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.