I was promised 80 gigs
This is weird,just got my new 17" iMac up an running(it was online within an hour) its the computer of my dreams and i love it already, but the computer says the hard drive is 74.5 gigs and that I have 68.9 left. does Jaguar really take up 6 gigabytes?, and why don't a get the full 80 gigs?, i feal slightly ripped off.
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<strong>This is weird,just got my new 17" iMac up an running(it was online within an hour) its the computer of my dreams and i love it already, but the computer says the hard drive is 74.5 gigs and that I have 68.9 left. does Jaguar really take up 6 gigabytes?, and why don't a get the full 80 gigs?, i feal slightly ripped off.</strong><hr></blockquote>
All your apps, OS, and documents take up that second 6 gigs of space. The actual formatted capacity of a hard drive is almost always somewhat less than the advertised disk space. Its a fact of tech.
1 kiloX is 1000 X's
1 megaX is 1000 kiloX's
1 gigaX is 1000 megaX's
However, in computing, we have...
1 kilobyte is 1024 bytes
1 megabyte is 1024 kilobytes
1 gigabyte is 1024 megabytes.
This is because 1024 is as close to 1000 as we can get with a number that is a power of 2 (2 to the 10).
A "gigabyte" really is 1024 times 1024 times 1024 bytes. But, if you're selling a hard drive, you want it to seem as large as possible. You can get away with using "GB" to represent 1000000000 bytes, and your drive will be magically larger.
So... take the advertised capacity of your drive in GB and do the following:
1. multiply by 1000 three times
2. divide by 1024 three times
This is the "real" capacity of your drive in gigabytes. That is, this is the number that the Finder, et al uses.
3. Open Disk Utility. In the left column, find your drive (should be pretty easy). There's a number next to it. That is also the "real" capacity of your drive. That number and the number you calculated above should be exactly the same.
...when you have a one yottabyte HD (ten to the twenty-fourth, I think.)
<strong>I have an external "120 GB" FireWire HD with an IBM drive inside and I get a 115,033 GB capacity, you never get the "promised" capacity on any HD.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Dang! <img src="graemlins/surprised.gif" border="0" alt="[Surprised]" /> Thats like, what, 100 terabytes? Where'd ya get that thang? If thats how IBM breaks a 'promise', then here I come Big Blue!
(tig)
[ 09-24-2002: Message edited by: The Grimace ]</p>
<strong>Depends what meathod of capture you use. I get15GB/sec min.</strong><hr></blockquote>
15GB a second? Minimum? <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
Perhaps you meant per minute, not second.