Curt Lundgren <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
Drive manufacturers have been using smoke and mirrors to make their drives seem larger than they really are since at least the mid-1980's. Remember software-driven drive compression? It was great when it worked, but all it took was a momentary power glitch while the drive was being written to, and the entire volume would be unreadable. -- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria -- 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
