500GB Harddrive Rant

I haven't ranted for quite a while here. I shall do so now. Well, today I went to the IT show at Suntec and bought a 500GB Maxtor External Harddrive among other things. Well, the good side is that I finally have a total of 0.9TB of space, a lot. (: However, as every harddrive is, there has to be a format. So why does this formatting have to take up so much space?! For a large harddrive like mine, it is relatively larger! While it says 500GB on the box.



It then says 465GB in windows explorer.



This really is bad. 35GB is just used for the formatting. Gotta be improved.