Another Hard Drive Question

[BallBuster]

C. Murgatroyd

[Bullhead]

Anything besides Raid 0 or 1 tends to only be used in servers, and enterprise/business level machines. Most home users don't have the cash for 3 or > HD's, plus the know-how to set it up. Yes, Raid 5, 10 and all the others offer many advantages over raid 0 or 1, but the costs and difficulties involved rule them out for your "average joe".

[Camel toe joe Profile WebsiteYIM]

I think we use raid 5, here at work it's nice to be able to hotswap a HD

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Finally a tech room...

[Landon West]

Originally posted by Bullhead
Ralph, windows will always misreport this number. What;s happening is two fold, really. First, the SATA bios is showing you the true drive size, whereas windows is showing you the drive size AFTER the file tables (i.e. partitions) have taken some space. Second, windows likes to round poorly

So, no, nothing to be concerned over.

Actually, the way manufacturers rate hard drives (apparently the motherboard reads them this way as well), is in Gibibytes. -bibytes are based on 10 like everything in the metric system, and -bytes as you know are based on 8.

This is actually just a clever marketing gimmick. I forget how you convert between the two, but basically as drive sizes get bigger in gibibytes, there is a greater difference between gibibytes and gigabytes becomes greater.

For example, I bought a 250 GB (it's actually GiB), and my BIOS shows it as being 250 GB but when I get into Windows or use any disk utility it is show as only being 239 GB.

My Raptor is said to be a 37 GB hard drive, however Windows only shows it as 34.4 GB.

So if you put the two Raptors into a RAID 0 configuration, in theory it should be 74 GB, and actually it WOULD be 74 GiB, but it would actually only be 68.8 GB. Tricky stuff, and it's very stupid that hard drive companies do that but that's just the way it is .