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| Thread ID: 41032 | 2003-12-27 23:07:00 | 160gb = 127gb? | Mark Veldhuizen (2570) | Press F1 |
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| 203577 | 2003-12-27 23:07:00 | My new MAXTOR 8mb cache 160 gb hard drive is, in fact, 127 gb. I don't think this is normal. I know that an 80gb hdd is around 72, which is acceptable loss of space, but 33 gigs missing? That's a little too much for my liking. I read somewhere that if you don't have SP1 your 160gig can show as 137. Well, I have sp1 and the drive has never been 137, it's always been 127. I'd like to know what 160gb drives are MEANT to hold (I would have guessed around 145-150 gigs) and if I can fix this is anything? Should I return the drive to the shop? This drive was also just sold in a [new] parts shop, you know, the disk came in a black/gray static bag, and that's it - no box or cd or instructions. Cheaper, that's why I did it, but is this somehow the reason? I got the receipt and am friendly with the shop owner, if you guys give me the go ahead, I'll take it back and demand another. Oh, and it can also be quite loud. Not in loading windows or just doing nothing, that's fine, it's when it's really reading into stuff or writing a lot, I get quite loud noticable noise. If it's normal I wouldn't care, if it's not normal, then I'd like to know. It's a 7,200 rpm. |
Mark Veldhuizen (2570) | ||
| 203578 | 2003-12-27 23:36:00 | My 80 gig shows 74.5 gigs free to use so i would assume that you double that for a 160 gig HDD if it s noisy take it back and ask for another one 120 gig say to see what that holds in reality . may be a bios feature that wont see anything bigger ? | kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 203579 | 2003-12-27 23:38:00 | My 60 gig shows 55.5 free | kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 203580 | 2003-12-27 23:58:00 | Your bios may need flashing to see the whole 170GB or so. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 203581 | 2003-12-28 00:22:00 | Hard drives these days are silent unless they're really mucking themselves up (that's a general statement). Manufacturers state the size of their drives as XX GB, but they get this figure by dividing the bits it holds by 8, 1000, and 1000. What they should really do is divide them by 8, 1024, and 1024. Hence my 40GB drive is really 38GB (rounded to two significant figures). You should theoretically be able to fit 152GB on your drive, given that Windows seems to report a slightly smaller total size than Partition Magic (most likely to do with the file system(s) that Windows uses). |
agent (30) | ||
| 203582 | 2003-12-28 00:26:00 | Back to the shop then? | Mark Veldhuizen (2570) | ||
| 203583 | 2003-12-28 00:37:00 | Some drives will reserve space for remapping, aka error recovery. Or you have a lot of bad sectors that the drive has un-mapped. If this is the case consult the manafactures web site as many have an "acceptable" limit of how many bad sectors a new drive will have. Also another thing to watch out for is 48bit LBA, needed for these larger drives. Check with the likes of AIDA that your OS & BIOS are happy with 48bit LBA. |
ugh1 (4204) | ||
| 203584 | 2003-12-28 01:39:00 | The numbers are flexible . The units are subject to marketing definitions . For nearly 50 years, a disk megabyte (as defined by IBM) has been 1000(decimal) kilobytes(binary, = 1024) . That's only a few percent difference from 1024*1024 (2^20) . Whether that has been extended for gigabytes (1000*1000*1024, or even 10^9, versus 2^30) I don't know . Check out a 1 . 44 MB floppy . It has 2880 512byte sectors . That is, 1440*1024 bytes . It is actually a 2MB disk, because each sector contains extra bits before and after the 512 accessible data bits, and there is room for a few more sectors in each track . Microsoft seem to have started using the SI definitions where a kilobyte is 2^10, and a megabyte is 2^20, so it will report a 1 . 44 MB floppy as 1 . 37 . Have a look at the label . It might give numbers for sectors/heads/tracks . Multiply these numbers, then by 512 and you will get the actual (no BS) size the manufacturer says it is . It also depends on what is reporting the size . Microsoft will say several things, depending oin the vesrion of their software . There are some BIOs which will say it is 8 MB . It's still a big disk . :D |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 203585 | 2003-12-28 02:48:00 | right click in my computer, click on manage, double click on storage, disk management (local). then it will show your hd. click on the 160gb one. then it will show the partitions. if it shows 1 partition and free space, you can make 2 partitions, or get partition magic to resize it so its full. if it shows 1 partition and no free space, you will need to flash the bios. if there isnt a manage option, you will need to get partition magic. dont take it back just yet. instead see if you can get the manual megaman |
Megaman (344) | ||
| 203586 | 2003-12-28 03:01:00 | My advice is take it back asap and get 2 x80 gig HDD hopefully for the same price lol | kiwibeat (304) | ||
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