-- Pantaleimon <pantaleimon@home.no>
On Sunday 08 December 2002 12:25, David Corbin wrote:
[snip]
Well, About 3 gig is other partions, and it appears to me that the other
7G is lost to making the raid device and various overheads (though that
sure seems excessive).
I think hardisk manufacturers use base 10, rather than base 2, when they
speak of "mega" and "giga", ie. mega = 1000K and not 1024K. That means
that a 120G hardisk is only 114.4G. Hence, 109.77G + about 3G = about
113G. Hmm, still about 1.5G missing.
They also quote the size before laying down timing tracks
and bad block mappings -- along with the bad blocks. That
accounts for another 10%.
Drives look kind of like modern lumber: you have to ignore
the nominal size in your calculations and deal with finished
size in order to plan for anything -- or just accept that
10% "shrinkage" is a normal part of life.
--
Steven Lembark 2930 W. Palmer
Workhorse Computing Chicago, IL 60647
+1 800 762 1582
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