[mythtv-users] OT: Size (MB) of Samsung HD501LJ drive?

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Tue Oct 9 01:09:17 UTC 2007


On 10/08/2007 08:58 PM, Michael Heironimus wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 04:32:29PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
>   
>> On Oct 8, 2007, at 4:27 PM, MythTV wrote:
>>> Steven Adeff wrote:
>>>       
>>>> I'm thinking of adding two of these to my existing RAID5 array but
>>>> want to make sure i won't have an issue. my current drives show a
>>>> cfdisk size of 500105.25 (MB). If anyone has one of these drives and
>>>> could let me know I'd much appreciate it!
>>> Mine are all in a hardware raid 6, but they show up under the 3ware  
>>> raid
>>> tool as:
>>>
>>> SAMSUNG HD501LJ 465.76 GB
>>>
>>> I was a little surprised when I bought them that there was 35 gig
>>> missing from what I was expecting.
>>>       
>> Probably they're using the "1 megabyte = 1 million bytes" convention.
>>
>> 465.76 * 1024 * 1024 = 488,384,758
>>
>> Probably rounds to 500,000,000 bytes if you look at it before  
>> formatting, with a salesman's eyes, and squint a bit.
>>     
> You need another multiplier in there to make it come out right.
>
> 465.76G * 1024M/G * 1024k/M * 1024b/k = 500105991946 bytes

And the salesman's eye isn't necessary, either:
http://physics.nist.gov/cgi-bin/cuu/Info/Units/binary.html

Mike


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