Western Digital Raptor question...!

[charlieyv]

my hard drive is being recognized as a USB device... is a raptor 74gb and is connecte to sata power and to a sata port... also windows says the hdd size is 70gb not 74... what do u guys think?

 

[losmeme]

Absolutely what it should be.

It is seen as a USB device because of the drivers (This is normal behavior)

A hard drive NEVER has as much space as advertised. Search for the technical answer if you need one.

 

[sturm]

My computer does that to. SATA is hot swappable, on many boards, just like usb is. There is nothing wrong.
Hard drives are advertised as 1gb= 1,000,000,000 bytes when its actually 1,024,000,000 bytes or something along that line.
Plus formating takes up some space too.
Its fine. My 2x250gb in raid 0 shows 465 gb total after formate.

 

[charlieyv]

thanks for helping out guys..!