I am running 2 hard drives with a total capacity of 46 ghz, My larger hard drive is running at a reduced size of 37 ghz should be 40 ghz
Additional question: Do you expect to add to you capacity and to what size?
I think I am satisfied with what I have for the moment,but I'll buy another Western Digital 40ghz drive next time to get to 77 ghz,prices for these drives have dropped sharply,can buy one for under $150 (www.dabs.com) they were twice that price 18 months ago (Could be even lower around the New Year?) They have a clearance corner also an auction link, so they could be even cheaper.
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11-22-02, 04:29 PM
TomGL2
You mean GB (gigabytes), not GHz (gigahertz), of course.

Regarding the "reduced capacity" you mentioned, the entire drive size is actually being used. Drive manufacturers generally use the decimal mega=1,000,000, and giga=1,000,000,000. Windows uses the binary mega=1,048,576 and giga=1,073,741,824.

Given a 40,000,000,000 byte drive, Windows should report its size as

40,000,000,000
———————— = 37.25 GB
1,073,741,824

Seagate defines their values a bit differently: mega=1,024,000 and giga=1,024,000,000. A 40 GB Seagate is reported by Windows as

40,960,000,000
———————— = 38.15 GB
1,073,741,824
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11-22-02, 05:30 PM
babthrower
I have 18.6.

What does one need more for? Movies? I download music but not movies. I've had this computer for 17 months and have never used more than 1/3 of my drive.
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11-23-02, 06:40 PM
vansrme
I have a 40 gig hd, but it only shows up as having 37 gigs, go figure! lol I also have an 8 gig hd that I'm not using.


chris
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11-23-02, 06:49 PM
Johnny Velo
I have 32.4. It's all I need.
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11-24-02, 08:44 AM
Murray S.
Howdy:

I am running a 30GB and a small 10gb on my system.

30GB holds the OS and all programs while all downloads and personal files are kept on the second hdd.. Makes life so much easier if the system crashes and everything has to be reloaded or re-installed again !!

Murray
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12-02-02, 10:42 PM
Kitty
I have 3 drives and all of them are quite small. My drives are 8, 1, and 1 GB. razz
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12-02-02, 11:22 PM
Jelp01
Mine is 30 GB or thereabouts.
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12-04-02, 01:08 AM
sonnet26
120 GB...I've used up about 20 GB since I got my new PC, about 2 months ago. All in graphics and some other stuff...mostly graphics.
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12-04-02, 08:03 AM
cswchan
machine 1 - 2x6 Gb.
machine 2 - 2x6 Gb.
machine 3 - 40+6 Gb
machine 4 - 40+30 Gb.
machine 5 - 30 Gb.
total - 170 Gb.
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12-30-02, 03:23 PM
jusork
I know I've seen this before but I can't remember where it says it. Can anyone give me a hint where I could find it so I can put my input in. Thanks.
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12-30-02, 04:35 PM
bedstor
Jusork
I saw you were an Aol member(email address in profile) easy way to check it out
right click on the AOL icon (by the clock) select "System Information" from menu the information you want is in the large window across from (CThen jot down what is in the "Total Space" column across from here and post it here
If your computer has 2 hard drives then you will want the numbers from (Das well
Your Cd drive is normally labelled(D but changes if there are new hard drives added, or the harddrive is partitioned (does not have a capacity)says under "Total space" column "CD-ROM Drive"
(A is the Floppy Disk drive(B is used if an additional Floppy Disk is fitted,but is rarely used these days.since programs are launched from CDs
Note to "Partitioned" Hard drive users add the total up on the drive unless you have several hard drives running.

[This message was edited by bedstor on 12-30-02 at 04:46 PM.]
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12-30-02, 05:07 PM
jusork
Ok under total space
(A floppy drive.
(C 38,135 MB
(D CD-ROM Drive

"Note to "Partitioned" Hard drive users add the total up on the drive unless you have several hard drives running."

How do I add the total up? I do have a floppy disk in the drive so it is running right.
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12-30-02, 05:54 PM
bedstor
Jusork
Your Hard drive size is: 37 GB
I think you have a 40 GB drive but it gets reported back as 37GB See TomGL2s posting in this thread (My hard drive is reported in the same way)

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