On Saturday, Aug 23, 2003, at 20:14 Pacific/Auckland, Jean-Jacques de Roover wrote:
Hello all,
I'm not all that tech savvy, so I need a bit of guidance here.
Do I need a special controller card if I want to use a 160 gig hard drive in my G4 tower? I bought the drive, but the system profiler says it's only 137 gigs.
Any guidance?
For a start the hard drive manufacturer defines 1Kb as 1000b not 1024b as the computer does. This goes right through the process i.e. 1Gb = 1000Mb not 1024Mb.
Thats why my 61Gb drive is actually only a 55.89Gb drive.
This wasn't really noticeable when the drives were only 540Mb but now that we are talking Gb's its more prominent.
Mike
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