Thank you everyone for your input this helps me out greatly with setting up my home server and setting up my monster server.
Any question or comments you can email or call me at any time. I will get back to you as fast as I can. Thank you and have a nice day!! Ken DeWitt Your Fellow Tech. Guy Phone # : 204-998-3218 Email: kendewitt@y <[email protected]>ftg.ca On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:45 PM, Ian E. Trump <[email protected]>wrote: > +1 Awesome Explanation **** > > ** ** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Michael Kozakewich > *Sent:* August-21-12 4:08 PM > > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [SkullSpace-Discuss] hard drive partition**** > > ** ** > > Considering that a “3TB” hard-drive has 3000000000000 bits, or 2.72 TB, > your number is about what there actually is on the drive.**** > > **** > > Any drive manufacturer will measure the byte metric system in orders of > 1000, rather than 1024. So while a terabyte should have 1024 * 1024 * 1024 > * 1024 = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes, they’ll market a “1TB” drive as > 1,000,000,000,000 bytes, which is technically only 0.9094 TB.**** > > **** > > To make a greater distinction, people have created units called > “Kibibytes” (KiB), “Mebibytes” (MiB), “Gibibytes” (GiB) and so on, which > refer to the proper 1024-based orders.**** > > **** > > **** > > Fun fact: Even though NAND chips contain a proper amount of memory (8 GiB > per die, these days, with many per package), and so a solid-state drive > might actually have 160 GiB, the manufacturers will pretend it only has > 160,000,000,000 bytes and keep the remaining 11,798,691,840 bytes (~11 > GiB) as spare area for wear levelling and replacement of damaged blocks.** > ** > > They also usually round drives like 64 GB and 128 GB down to 60 GB and 120 > GB, and use that additional area for redundancy or other backup measures.* > *** > > *From:* Ken DeWitt <[email protected]> **** > > *Sent:* Monday, August 20, 2012 11:53 PM**** > > *To:* Skull Space Discussion List <[email protected]> **** > > *Subject:* [SkullSpace-Discuss] hard drive partition**** > > **** > > I would like to ask what the group thinks is the best format to give to a > hard drive so you can get the most use out of a hard drive? NTFS lets you > only use 2.7 tb of a 3 tb hard drive. I am trying to see if I can use to > full 3 tb or as close to it as possible. It does not matter which os can > access it. **** > > > Any question or comments you can email or call me at any time. > I will get back to you as fast as I can. > > Thank you and have a nice day!! > > Ken DeWitt > Your Fellow Tech. Guy**** > > Phone # : 204-998-3218 > Email: mailto:[email protected]<[email protected]> > ftg.ca**** > > **** > > **** > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/**** > > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >
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