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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: The maxtor 213 meg drive is NOT 213 megs!
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 19:21:17 GMT
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- In article <BzqGpG.Kqu@utdallas.edu> goyal@utdallas.edu (MOHIT K GOYAL) writes:
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- >>I thought most manufacturers put down the UNformatted capacity of the drive?
- >>>Is the Quantum 240LPS really a 240MB drive, by the way?
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- Does "unformatted capacity" still make sense in this day of IDE? I always
- thought that it was about 50% greater than the formatted capacity (eg. IBM's
- HD floppies are marked 2MB) though in this day the use of zone formatting
- would increase the formatted:unformatted capacity ratio.
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- >My Maxtor 7120A is advertised as a 130meg hard drive and formats out to
- >129,931,264 bytes. Maybe it has something to do with drives around 200megs?
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- Ummm.. divide 129,931,264 by 1024x1024.
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