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- From: goyal@utdallas.edu (MOHIT K GOYAL)
- Subject: Re: The maxtor 213 meg drive is NOT 213 megs!
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:20:03 GMT
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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!!!).
- >I thought most manufacturers put down the UNformatted capacity of the drive?
- >>Is the Quantum 240LPS really a 240MB drive, by the way?
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- My Maxtor 7120A is advertised as a 130meg hard drive and formats out to
- 129,931,264 bytes. Maybe it has something to do with drives around 200megs?
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