4.2GB - Formatted or Unformatted?

[koaftder]

DamageX wrote:
Harddrives are already formatted when you get them (physical format, not logical format) but some people (including drive manufacturers) will talk about 4.2GB = 4,200,000,000 bytes while others will talk about 4.0GB = (the limit of 32-bit addressing) = 4,294,967,296 bytes

And yes, the 4GB limitation does not mean that you need a drive of 4GB or less, you just won't be able to use the additional space.

Harddrive mfrg's make me mad with all that crap. In their world:

1kb = 1000 bytes
imb = 1000 kb
1gb = 1000 mb

or they define 1mb = 1024kb but a gb = 1000mb.

You should be able to calculate exactly how many bytes are on the drive from the number on the box.

[koaftder]

amije wrote:
i think this is a matter of both scsi device and file system limitations. the 64 nsd versions can ''see'' and work in theory with some terabytes. microsoft had similar broblems with fat, fat32 and the latest, the 128gb barrier before the sp1 of winxp. if you have a biger drive and plain xp you can use only the first 128gb until you install the sp1 update

Man, am i the only one who cant fill up a 40 gig drive on a pc or a mac?

[koaftder]

Piru wrote:

Man, am i the only one who cant fill up a 40 gig drive on a pc or a mac?

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Unit      Size    Used    Free Full Errs   State     Type Name
SDH2:    96.4G   88.7G    7.7G  92%    0 read/write  PFS3 Huge
SSDH1:   29.9G   26.3G    3.7G  88%    0 read/write  PFS3 Storage
SSDH2:   96.4G   90.2G    6.2G  94%    0 read/write  PFS3 Work

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6              66G  3.6G   59G   6% /home
/dev/sda1             373G  314G   60G  85% /mnt/siika1
/dev/hdd1             373G  179G  195G  48% /mnt/siika2


You sir, are the king of pr0n!  :-D