On Tuesday 09 July 2002 06:55 am, Dalton Calford wrote:
> I have just purchased a Maxstor 80GB Hard drive (D740X-6L).
> The computer is a new P4 1.6 and the bios auto-detects it properly.
> It is mounted as hdc (it is master on second ide channel with no
> slave) When I use diskdrake, I can see the drive but, it reports it
> as being a 76GB drive (96% usage).
1000/1024 = ~97% HDD manufaturers take some creative license to
call a million bytes a MB, and then they tend to round up. Since one
K is 1024 bytes, an advertised 80 GB is really ~76GB. Diskdrake is
just tellin you the truth ;) Maxtor's no worse than any other
manufacturer, they all fib.
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