Curiosity: How many harddrives do you have?

[neilthecellist]

Re: Curiosity: How many harddrives do you have?

holy crap. that's a lot. wish i had the money.

[OldCoder]

Re: Curiosity: How many harddrives do you have?

You will have the money someday.

All it takes is age and warped priorities, although it does help to own a software company......

The age isn't as important as the warped priorities.....which also helps as a software developer....

[neilthecellist]

Re: Curiosity: How many harddrives do you have?

lol I'm 15. I'm getting there!!

[iTunesIsEvil]

Re: Curiosity: How many harddrives do you have?

2: 1 250G WD IDE
1 80G WD SATA

The big 250 is my 'media' drive and the 80g is for OS and programs. It's currently running WinXP Pro SP2 and Fedora Core3.

Just finished my new machine

MSI K8T Neo2 FIR Mobo
AMD Athlon64 3200+
1G Kingston RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 5200 FX VidCard
Sony CD-RW/DVDROM
250GB IDE WesternDigital HDD
80GB SATA WesternDigital HDD

[neilthecellist]

Re: Curiosity: How many harddrives do you have?

hey iTunesIsEvil, where can I find info that tells me how fast s-ATA is compared to stuff like 10,000 RPM Raptor drive , 7200 RPM , 5400 RPM or whatever...?

[LtData]

Re: Curiosity: How many harddrives do you have?

Here: http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/index.html
As for SATA, right now its not really any faster than ATA133/ATA100 drives as the HDD itself is the bottleneck in transferring. There are a few advances that will change this though. One good things about SATA is the smaller cables.

[Smoggy]

Re: Curiosity: How many harddrives do you have?

computer 1 120gb
Computer 2 60gb
exteranl 250gb

Why is it that when I buy a XXXGB HD I don't get the full potential out of it?
e.g I bought a 250GB and after formatting and what not, I end up with only 232GB???
Am I doing somthing wrong?

[neilthecellist]

Re: Curiosity: How many harddrives do you have?

Why is it that when I buy a XXXGB HD I don't get the full potential out of it?
e.g I bought a 250GB and after formatting and what not, I end up with only 232GB???
Am I doing somthing wrong?

Smoggy, I learned in Computer Programming last semester at my high school that a megabyte is 1024 kilobytes. If you do the math, you would find out that if you have a 250 GB hard drive, you won't get the full potential, just because bytes are rounded to the nearest tenth in math.

[Smoggy]

Re: Curiosity: How many harddrives do you have?

hmmmm....Well If Hitachi is printing on their boxes that this is a 250GB Drive then I feel you should be able to get 250GB out of it.

[neilthecellist]

Re: Curiosity: How many harddrives do you have?

I agree with you on that...but society isn't like that...:(

[LtData]

Re: Curiosity: How many harddrives do you have?

To HDD manufacturers, 1 gigabyte = 1 billion bytes
To Operating Systems, 1 gigabyte = 2^30 power bytes
Yea, so it means a 160GB drive is only 154.4GB or whatever. Sorry, blame the HDD manufacturers.

[Smoggy]

Re: Curiosity: How many harddrives do you have?

Bogus!! :vmad:

It's time for a class action false advertising lawsuit!!! LOL :D

[LtData]

Re: Curiosity: How many harddrives do you have?

It was tried and failed. Your too late.

[ChristinaS]

Re: Curiosity: How many harddrives do you have?

Actually I thought that the loss comes about after formatting the drive, due to some overhead. You see it even more when you partition the drive and the 2 partitions don't quite add up to the unpartitioned drive capacity. It's the same as for diskettes. Unformatted their stated capacity is larger than 1.44MB. Of course now all you get are formatted diskettes - and even those are on their last leg it seems, after being replaced by other media.

[neilthecellist]

Re: Curiosity: How many harddrives do you have?

Bah, WHO CARES? I mean, seriously, it's just a few gigs you lost. Big deal. Were you seriously gonna fill up those few gigs that you supposedly lost due to overhead or whatever?