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- From: gting@fraser.sfu.ca (Gabriel Sii Kuok Ting)
- Subject: Re: The maxtor 213 meg drive is NOT 213 megs!
- Message-ID: <gting.725143054@sfu.ca>
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- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <lestrade.725128294@Ra.MsState.Edu> <s106275.725140761@ee.tut.fi>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:37:34 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- s106275@ee.tut.fi (Anssi Saari) writes:
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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.
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- >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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- I thought most manufacturers put down the UNformatted capacity of the drive?
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- >Is the Quantum 240LPS really a 240MB drive, by the way?
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- >Anssi
- >--
- >Anssi Saari s106275@ee.tut.fi
- >Tampere University of Technology
- >Finland, Europe
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