Re: Internal Hard Drive Question

[LuKreme]

On Sep 21, 2003, at 5:38 PM, Charles Martin wrote:
From: Jim Dynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

I have a 10 gig internal drive and a 80 gig external. The internal is 
going
bad I think, so I need to replace it. What is the maximum gigs that a 
Mac
can recognize?

YOUR Mac can recognise up to 128 GB per drive (actually 137, I think, 
but that's unformatted).
This is a common is misconception (I hear the morons on The Screen 
Savers repeat it all the time).   The capacity of HDs is measured by 
computers in 1 Gigabyte = 1024*1204*1204 bytes, or 1,073,741,824 bytes. 
 Hard drive VENDORS, on the other hand, list drives as being 1 Gigabyte 
= 1,000,000,000 bytes:

128 * (1,073,741,824) = 137,438,953,472

There is no space "lost" to formatting (well, a very little but, but 
not 9GB).


Also, I have seen posts about certain drives don't work well as an 
internal
drive. I need to know which ones work well.

I have a 400 slot loader.
I have put a Western Digital SE 8MB 7200 120GB in my iMac slot-loader 
(as a replacement for the original hitachi 5400 60GB) and it works 
fine. No heat problems or anything. I don't think you need to worry 
about that at all.
In my experience drives with 8MB cache are considerably cooler than 2MB 
cache drives.

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