Storage Quiz

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*spazzed*

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hamilton, ontario, canada

• Sep 14, 2002

• #41

20 gig maxtor
reads 19 gigs in windoze
17.8gb used
1.22gb free

it;s on it;s way out though, fried, very fried


now i'mma go to a 60 gig....just have to ghost everythig over

my burner underwrites because my hardrive is.....well fried

 

BIG-O-2

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Jul 30, 2001

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Earth

• Sep 25, 2002

• #42

Main system 60gb maxtor 7200 rpm windows says it is 60gb.

all other systems are on 5gb or 1.6gb mostly maxtor.

I do own a western digital 850mb, 540mb corsar.

40gb maxtor died, now I have a 60gb maxtor.

 

Last edited: Oct 8, 2002

DAGO

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Chico CA

• Oct 6, 2002

• #43

Still using my old WD 13.6 GB HDD which is only ATA 66...Too slow...
Gonna have to get something new pretty soon, not alot of room left...

 

CaliVW78

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• Oct 8, 2002

• #44

1 WD 40 gig
---30gigs for XP
---10gigs for Mandrake

1 325Mb Seagate
---Works great for pagefile when I don't have enough money to buy more ram.

 

Nico3k

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CA

• Oct 19, 2002

• #45

200GB 7200RPM 8MB Cache Western Digital Specail Edition

 

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lutjens

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Oct 18, 2002

• Oct 26, 2002

• #46

Check my sig for hard drive info...

 

specific

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Atlanta, GA

• Oct 27, 2002

• #47

80GB WD special ed
5gig for win98se
10gig for XPpro
rest for games, audio, etc

 

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AllGore

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England

• Nov 2, 2002

• #48

60GB IBM, gets hot but the space is worth it. Once i got broardband it went from 1/8 full to 1/2. Partitioned into 5gb windoze, 15gb programs and 40gb *other*. I was thinking of getting another and putting them on raid but the new mobo i wanted wasnt in stock and i had to have the other version of the A7V8X which has no raid

 

Deus

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Dallas Tx

• Nov 12, 2002

• #49

80gig seagate is my largest
woohoo, i tied it between the 80s and the 40s!

 

SuperDave1685

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USMC.. OoRah!!

• Nov 14, 2002

• #50

LOL

lol i think I beat all of you i got 2, yes TWO, 120GB Western Digitals in my rig now I download everything that I get my hands on. I got the second HD split 6/10/104 GB ( 6GB for my Documents, 10 GB for Linux, and the rest for downloads and movies ). All in all, that gives my a total of 240 TOTAL storage . Damn- all i need is one more to go along with my CD- Burner and DVD-ROM.

 

faaip

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• Nov 25, 2002

• #51

i only got under 60gb

 

darkversed

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brooklyn bridge, nyc

• Dec 6, 2002

• #52

i got 2 wd 80gb

 

/\\/3|2o

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SA, TX

• Dec 9, 2002

• #53

i filled my 80 gig in less than a week

 

Strangelove

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Copenhagen, Denmark

• Dec 10, 2002

• #54

Hmm let me see:
2 x 30 Gb IBM
1 x 30 Gb Samsung
1 x 80 Gb Seagate
1 x 120 Gb Maxtor

 

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Munke

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Coquitlam, BC

• Dec 10, 2002

• #55

1 x 60gb maxtor 7200rpm
1 x 40gb maxtor 7200rpm
1 x 30gb maxtor 5400rpm

 

Stedeman

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Location

Lewiston Maine

• Dec 13, 2002

• #56

I have:
Maxtor 120gb (usb 2.0) and
Maxtor 80gb (usb 2.0)
IBM 20gb (in laptop)
IBM 10gb (laptop drive in a usb 2.0 mini case)
and 2 more 10gb W/D in the mail
*But I am selling the 80gb because of the 120gb (current load on all drives is about 100gb total used) its in the classifieds section

 

Decaf

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Monday

• Dec 19, 2002

• #57

30 gb maxtor, but it actually had 29 and change; hmm maybe Ralph Nader should look into this.

 

Stedeman

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Lewiston Maine

• Dec 19, 2002

• #58

it formatting my 120GB is only 111GB

 

Redstone

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Oct 30, 2002

• Dec 27, 2002

• #59

Master 15 Gig 5400 rpm WD 6 months old
Slave 10 Gig 5400 rpm WD 4 years old

 

/\\/3|2o

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SA, TX

• Dec 27, 2002

• #60

Hey Decaf, I copied and pasted something that Madman said before. Its quite interesting. Explains why our HDs always say less than what we bouught.

--------Posted by Madman in Past Thread--------

Question: Why does my 80gig hard drive only appear as a 74.5 gig drive in windows.

Answer: Hard drive manufactuers use the decimal system to rate the hard drive witch is 1GB = 1000MB 1MB = 1000KB 1KB = 1000 bytes. the computer bios, and windows use the binary system thus 1GB = 1024MB 1MB = 1024KB 1KB = 1024 bytes. Here is a good way to get a handle on the apparent loss in space, windows will show your hard drive as ~ 93% of the manufactures rated space. Note the size of your hardrive is not different the Manufacturer did not lie for the proof here is the math. Our example 80 GB drive 80 X 1000 X 1000 X 1000 = 80000000000 bytes. 80000000000/1024/1024/1024 = 74.5 GB or (80 X 1000^3)/(1024^3).

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