Storage Solutions HDD query

[ev1lb0ygen1us]

how much is the accessible capacity of 1TB WD green?
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is accessible capacity=formatted capacity?
Then is it true that 1TB WD green have more than 1000GB accessible capacity?

 

[shroff87]

I've yet to see any hdd company sell disks using 1024 as a measurement, so no.

 

[axeman]

see, 1 TB as per HDD manufacturers is 1,000,000,000,000 bytes (1 Trillion Bytes not 1 Terabyte), so you get 931.3225746 Gigabytes in a 1 Tb HDD on formatting RAW. With NTFS it will be slightly less as it needs some overheads for filesystem etc.

 

[ev1lb0ygen1us]

thanx axeman

 

[wayne_rooney]

edited.. no hijacking..

 

[mayanksahni]

Go for seagate 7200.12 500gb and 2x2transcend 800MHz

 

[m0h1t]

^ +1 Good suggestion newbie

 

[axeman]

hi..

i need ltl help guys..in to choose..

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 SATA 500GB Hard Drive or to buy WD hdd...instead this.. seagate has many problems..as i read on many sites..

and

in 2 x 2GB Transcend 800MHz stick for dual channel.. normal 2 single sticks will do... or 2 *2 4gb kit required for dual channel mode...

please rectify me..

thanks in advance..

Dude, Open a new thread for such queries, avoid hijacking