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- From: s106275@ee.tut.fi (Anssi Saari)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: The maxtor 213 meg drive is NOT 213 megs!
- Message-ID: <s106275.725140761@ee.tut.fi>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 19:59:21 GMT
- References: <lestrade.725128294@Ra.MsState.Edu>
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- Organization: Tampere University of Technology, Finland
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- In <lestrade.725128294@Ra.MsState.Edu> lestrade@Ra.MsState.Edu (John Patrick Lestrade) writes:
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- >Well, am I he last person on earth to find this out? My Maxtor 7213a
- >(which all of the adds list it as 213 meg drive) is only 202 megs!
- >213,000,000 is not 213 megs (213 megs=213*1024*1024)
- >Thank you, I feel better now.
-
- Neither is my Conner CP3204F a 212MB drive, but a 202.765625MB, even though
- Conner has advertized it as 212MB. Every drive manufacturer seems to
- conveniently forget what a megabyte is... I guess someone started it and
- everybody else had to follow, so people wouldn't think they get better deals
- for some drives (Wow, 10MB more for $5!!!).
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- Is the Quantum 240LPS really a 240MB drive, by the way?
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- Anssi
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- Anssi Saari s106275@ee.tut.fi
- Tampere University of Technology
- Finland, Europe
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