931 != 1024, not even for a good solid drive. Apple recently went over to the evil side. My computer tells me I have a 1 TB drive, and it's 900+ in reality. They used to tell the truth, but I suppose they got tired of people asking why there was this huge gap between fantasy and reality. Now fantasy is the rule of the day.
Didn't know that Windoze was potentially doing the same thing. Curt On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/26/2012 07:24 PM, Chris McQuistion wrote: > >> Are those drives Western Digital Green drives? Those things are >> TERRIBLY slow. >> > > Nope, Seagate ST31000340NS. Now, with all the drive mfg. mergers, who > really knows... > > And another thing - why does 931GB round up to 1TB? > > > >> As for redirecting C:\Users, I don't recommend it. You can use Windows >> 7's "Library" functionality to redirect users' documents, music, >> pictures, etc, over to a network drive with relative safety, but >> redirecting the whole C:\Users will screw things up that need to access >> files in that directory before the network layer has finished loading. >> >> Chris >> >> > Fair comment, Chris. No network involved in this configuration. The RAID > is local to the Windows 7 box -- drive D:\. In case anyone wonders, first > thing I do is move the optical drive to Z:\. > > That I want to load the NFS stuff for Windows 7 is another chapter... > > > Howard > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <nlug-talk%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/nlug-talk?hl=en <http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
