John Andrewartha wrote:
When you format a disk a percentage of the disk is reserved for a map so your
file can be found.
On a UFS it is called the SUPER BLOCKS a master and at least one slave.
Typically these blocks will take up to 8% or there abouts of the disk.
BTW I am not shouting when "SU
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 03:41:24 pm Norberto Meijome wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:35:28 +0200 (CEST)
>
> Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > but we are talking about disk capacity. filesystem is just kind of data
> > on disk, you may access disk without it like my video stream server.
> >
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:35:28 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> but we are talking about disk capacity. filesystem is just kind of data on
> disk, you may access disk without it like my video stream server. actually
> only 1GB of each disk is allocated for filesystem (mirr
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:22:00 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > not a case of misrepresentations that I have found on network
> > attached hard disk storage devices and Firewire drives.
> > I have one that was expressly advertised on the package to be
> > 120 Gb capacity,
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:23:45 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Advertised sizes are for unformatted media. Each filesystem will use
> > different
>
> no. they use available space (in sectors) but counted in billions of bytes
> instead of 2^30 bytes
fair enough...but
no. they use available space (in sectors) but counted in billions of bytes
instead of 2^30 bytes
fair enough...but disk's useful capacity will be slightly
different after you format it in whatever filesystem you choose with whatever
options you choose to format.
but we are talking about disk ca
as 120 Gb and actually only has 117 Gb usable capacity.
Like 9Gb is enough for several operating systems. 3Gb is even
enough for an operating syste
Advertised sizes are for unformatted media. Each filesystem will use different
no. they use available space (in sectors) but counted in billions o
not a case of misrepresentations that I have found on network
attached hard disk storage devices and Firewire drives.
I have one that was expressly advertised on the package to be
120 Gb capacity, and in fact only 111Gb are available for storage.
common marketlie: telling capacity not in gigabyt
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:47:19 -0700
jekillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there a utility for measuring the effective RPM of a hard disk?
> A software tackometer?
not sure, ultimatebootcd , as it has been suggested, may have some answers. For
reference, just get the drive model and get the full
As far as the 120gig != 111gig discrepancy, it sounds like the drive
manufacturer use 1 gig = 1,000,000,000 bytes instead of 1,073,741,824
bytes for their advertising. It looks better on the box. It gets messy
with drive advertisements as there's no required standard for how they
advertise a gi
On Sep 19, 2007, at 6:07 PM, Rob wrote:
Derek Ragona wrote:
Run the manufacturer's diagnostic utility to check the drives speed
and performance. Most of these utilities also give you the drive
model and serial number as well. Look for a self-booting version
that is a cd-rom ISO, these usua
Derek Ragona wrote:
Run the manufacturer's diagnostic utility to check the drives speed and
performance. Most of these utilities also give you the drive model and
serial number as well. Look for a self-booting version that is a cd-rom
ISO, these usually run FreeDOS to easily access the hardwa
At 07:47 PM 9/19/2007, jekillen wrote:
Hello;
Is there a utility for measuring the effective RPM of a hard disk?
A software tackometer?
I have IDE drives, SATA drives, both 7200 and 10,000 RPM,
as well as SCSI disks that are supposed to be running at 15k
RPM. I noticed that on the hard drive labe
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