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Harddrive install question : size?
Insatalled a 160gb wd in a gateway MX6440 laptop and all i see is 149gb
totel size with 145gb free. how do i get the full drive? Thanks Larry |
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Harddrive install question : size?
Larry wrote in news:Xns9C66CD1603C99Larrynospammenet@
216.196.97.130: Insatalled a 160gb wd in a gateway MX6440 laptop and all i see is 149gb totel size with 145gb free. how do i get the full drive? Thanks Larry I checked local disk properties . It sees 160 gb then to the right 144. Free space 155gb to the right 144gb. Don't know whats happened. Thanks Larry |
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Larry wrote:
Insatalled a 160gb wd in a gateway MX6440 laptop and all i see is 149gb totel size with 145gb free. how do i get the full drive? Thanks Larry It all depends on how you do the math. But no matter what, 1K does not equal 1000. But then there's Microsoft math, a leftover from the days when assembly programmers would save some clock cycles by avoiding a time-consuming divide by 1000. Instead, they shifted the number right 10 bits (or dropping the rightmost 10 bits, if you'd rather)... Ben Myers |
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Harddrive install question : size?
Ben Myers wrote in
: Larry wrote: Insatalled a 160gb wd in a gateway MX6440 laptop and all i see is 149gb totel size with 145gb free. how do i get the full drive? Thanks Larry It all depends on how you do the math. But no matter what, 1K does not equal 1000. But then there's Microsoft math, a leftover from the days when assembly programmers would save some clock cycles by avoiding a time-consuming divide by 1000. Instead, they shifted the number right 10 bits (or dropping the rightmost 10 bits, if you'd rather)... Ben Myers Thanks Ben ! So 149 is the full size!. It would help if they just used real numbers. You see 160 but it's a illusion. Thanks Larry |
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Harddrive install question : size?
*-* On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, at 00:12:36 -0500,
*-* In Article , *-* Larry wrote *-* About Harddrive install question : size? Ben Myers wrote in : Larry wrote: Insatalled a 160gb wd in a gateway MX6440 laptop and all i see is 149gb totel size with 145gb free. how do i get the full drive? Thanks Larry It all depends on how you do the math. But no matter what, 1K does not equal 1000. But then there's Microsoft math, a leftover from the days when assembly programmers would save some clock cycles by avoiding a time-consuming divide by 1000. Instead, they shifted the number right 10 bits (or dropping the rightmost 10 bits, if you'd rather)... Ben Myers Thanks Ben ! So 149 is the full size!. It would help if they just used real numbers. You see 160 but it's a illusion. I wouldn't call it an illusion. It's the difference between decimal (powers of 10 - 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000, etc.) and binary (powers of 2 - 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, etc.) math. In decimal math, kilo- is 1,000. In binary math the closest power of 2 is 1,024, so that came to be known as kilo- as the closest approximation. Unfortunately, as you go up the scale, the difference becomes much greater. Decimal Binary KiloByte (KB) 1,000 Bytes 1,024 Bytes MegaByte (MB) 1,000,000 " 1,048,576 " GigaByte (GB) 1,000,000,000 " 1,073,741,824 " Hard drive manufacturers use decimal numbers to measure the capacity of drives, so your 160 GB drive is 160,000,000,000 bytes. Computers are binary devices (1/0, +/-, yes/no, however you want to think of the process), so they "see" hard drives in binary terms, so your computer sees that "160 GB" drive as 160,000,000,000/1,073,741,824 (or 149.0116) GB. The same relationship applies to all hard drives (and other storage devices) whether OEM, replacement, or whatever. As you can see from this example, manufacturers measure capacity decimally because it allows them to claim a larger capacity for a given size drive, and years ago, when the practice started, the differences weren't as significant. Thanks Larry You're welcome. Ken Whiton -- FIDO: 1:132/152 InterNet: L (remove the obvious to reply) |
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Ken Whiton typed on Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:32:42 -0400: I wouldn't call it an illusion. It's the difference between decimal (powers of 10 - 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000, etc.) and binary (powers of 2 - 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, etc.) math. In decimal math, kilo- is 1,000. In binary math the closest power of 2 is 1,024, so that came to be known as kilo- as the closest approximation. Unfortunately, as you go up the scale, the difference becomes much greater. Decimal Binary KiloByte (KB) 1,000 Bytes 1,024 Bytes MegaByte (MB) 1,000,000 " 1,048,576 " GigaByte (GB) 1,000,000,000 " 1,073,741,824 " Hard drive manufacturers use decimal numbers to measure the capacity of drives, so your 160 GB drive is 160,000,000,000 bytes. Computers are binary devices (1/0, +/-, yes/no, however you want to think of the process), so they "see" hard drives in binary terms, so your computer sees that "160 GB" drive as 160,000,000,000/1,073,741,824 (or 149.0116) GB. The same relationship applies to all hard drives (and other storage devices) whether OEM, replacement, or whatever. As you can see from this example, manufacturers measure capacity decimally because it allows them to claim a larger capacity for a given size drive, and years ago, when the practice started, the differences weren't as significant. Thanks Larry You're welcome. Ken Whiton Also to add, don't forget the drive compacity is measured before formatting. Like McDonald's Quarter Pounder is a quarter pound before cooking. After formatting, you lose some of the free space as well. -- Bill Gateway MX6124 ('06 era) - Windows XP SP2 |
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Larry wrote:
Ben Myers wrote in : Larry wrote: Insatalled a 160gb wd in a gateway MX6440 laptop and all i see is 149gb totel size with 145gb free. how do i get the full drive? Thanks Larry It all depends on how you do the math. But no matter what, 1K does not equal 1000. But then there's Microsoft math, a leftover from the days when assembly programmers would save some clock cycles by avoiding a time-consuming divide by 1000. Instead, they shifted the number right 10 bits (or dropping the rightmost 10 bits, if you'd rather)... Ben Myers Thanks Ben ! So 149 is the full size!. It would help if they just used real numbers. You see 160 but it's a illusion. Thanks Larry If you right click the drive letter in My Computer, and then click on Properties, you'll get to see both numbers. The honest to gosh real base 10 decimal number followed by the mangled-by-1K number... Ben Myers |
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BillW50 wrote:
In , Ken Whiton typed on Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:32:42 -0400: I wouldn't call it an illusion. It's the difference between decimal (powers of 10 - 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000, etc.) and binary (powers of 2 - 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, etc.) math. In decimal math, kilo- is 1,000. In binary math the closest power of 2 is 1,024, so that came to be known as kilo- as the closest approximation. Unfortunately, as you go up the scale, the difference becomes much greater. Decimal Binary KiloByte (KB) 1,000 Bytes 1,024 Bytes MegaByte (MB) 1,000,000 " 1,048,576 " GigaByte (GB) 1,000,000,000 " 1,073,741,824 " Hard drive manufacturers use decimal numbers to measure the capacity of drives, so your 160 GB drive is 160,000,000,000 bytes. Computers are binary devices (1/0, +/-, yes/no, however you want to think of the process), so they "see" hard drives in binary terms, so your computer sees that "160 GB" drive as 160,000,000,000/1,073,741,824 (or 149.0116) GB. The same relationship applies to all hard drives (and other storage devices) whether OEM, replacement, or whatever. As you can see from this example, manufacturers measure capacity decimally because it allows them to claim a larger capacity for a given size drive, and years ago, when the practice started, the differences weren't as significant. Thanks Larry You're welcome. Ken Whiton Also to add, don't forget the drive compacity is measured before formatting. Like McDonald's Quarter Pounder is a quarter pound before cooking. After formatting, you lose some of the free space as well. The loss of some capacity due to formatting is acceptable. No matter what the file system, you can't format a drive without taking up some space for file system tables. And more space is left after formatting than McDonald's gives you with a cooked Quarter Pounder. It's Microsoft's mindless insistence on using K that is confusing to many and downright stupid to some of us... Ben Myers |
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Harddrive install question : size?
Ben Myers wrote in news:h63raq$at4$3
@news.eternal-september.org: Larry wrote: Ben Myers wrote in : Larry wrote: Insatalled a 160gb wd in a gateway MX6440 laptop and all i see is 149gb totel size with 145gb free. how do i get the full drive? Thanks Larry It all depends on how you do the math. But no matter what, 1K does not equal 1000. But then there's Microsoft math, a leftover from the days when assembly programmers would save some clock cycles by avoiding a time-consuming divide by 1000. Instead, they shifted the number right 10 bits (or dropping the rightmost 10 bits, if you'd rather)... Ben Myers Thanks Ben ! So 149 is the full size!. It would help if they just used real numbers. You see 160 but it's a illusion. Thanks Larry If you right click the drive letter in My Computer, and then click on Properties, you'll get to see both numbers. The honest to gosh real base 10 decimal number followed by the mangled-by-1K number... Ben Myers I see the numbers. Thanks all for the info.! Larry |
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