80 Gig HD at 74.5 Gigs?

[Cooj]

Hi Everyone

I recently purchased the WD 80 gig Caviar 7200rpm /w 8 mb cache. What I did is I mounted it into my computer and then I used partition magic to fdisk/format (I'm not sure which i the right term). I did a logical (I think it was logical) format and I chose the quick option.

The drive displays at 74.5 gigs. I Was wondering if tihs is normal or if this is because I chose the quick choie or what?

Thanks,
Cooj

 

[Arrow]

This is probably due to difference between how the manufacturer reads disk capacity and how the computer is reading it. In computer terms, 1 kilobyte = 1024 bytes, where in manufacturers' terms, 1kilobyte = 1000 bytes.

Rob
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[camieabz]

Yup. Arrow is right.

1024 bytes (1KB) x 1024 = 1MB x 1024 = 1GB.

1024 x 1024 x 1024 = 1073741824. 74.5 of these = 79,993,765,888 bytes, or approx 80GB. It's a sales gimmick. Everyone suffers from it, so don't worry.

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