"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
08/06/2019 at 00:40 • Filed to: None
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"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
08/06/2019 at 00:40 • Filed to: None | 2
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I found this drive in a security DVR at the Goodwill Outlet today. Someone asked me what size it was and I said two terabytes. His response was that it was kind of small. A few minutes later he took a look at it in my cart and was surprised and impressed that it was such a big drive - 2000 gigabytes.
Hey, dummy - 2000 GB is 2 TB...
PyroHoltz f@h Oppo 261120
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
08/06/2019 at 00:51 |
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Sounds like he’s about as sharp as a sock filled with soup.
How much for that 2,000,000MB drive?
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Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
> PyroHoltz f@h Oppo 261120
08/06/2019 at 00:53 |
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Well, I bought just the drive instead of the whole DVR, so based on the weight I probably paid around 90 cents, maybe a whole dollar. It would have been a little cheaper if I took the brackets off, but I'll pay the extra dime and save some time.
atfsgeoff
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
08/06/2019 at 01:56 |
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Bro, do you even metric system??
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Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
> atfsgeoff
08/06/2019 at 02:54 |
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OK, it’s an 8.89 cm drive.
Tekamul
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
08/06/2019 at 05:55 |
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Do I have to be the pedant to say it’s not 2TB? No, but I’m going to anyways. It’s 48GB short of being 2TB. That’s why it doesn’t say 2TB.
Sorry to be pedantic.
RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
08/06/2019 at 06:30 |
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SMRT. Wish I could make a find like that! Did you hook it up and test it? Any issues in the SMART Diagnostics? I use CrystalDiskInfo to check drives usually (on Windows) or GSmartControl on Linux.
facw
> Tekamul
08/06/2019 at 07:13 |
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Nah, it’s not like 2000GB is a power of 2 either. In any event, the decimal SI prefix is fine, it’s the OS that’s being weird by labeling binary-power storage with a decimal prefix. You’d be correct if this drive was labeled with the IEC binary prefix (i.e. 2000GiB, which is not 2TiB). Of course no one uses the binary prefixes, because they look and sound stupid.
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Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
> RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
08/06/2019 at 07:14 |
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I haven’t tested it yet, but will get to that later today. Even if it turns out to be a dud I figure I got a couple of strong refrigerator magnets out of the deal. It’s sort of like buying a lottery ticket but in reverse - pay a dollar and take a chance, but the gamble usually pays off.
Thomas Donohue
> Tekamul
08/06/2019 at 07:26 |
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If they are both listed as decimal numbers, I believe it’s still 2000GB and 2TB.
If you extrapolate them as binary, you’ll run into more math.
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Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
> Tekamul
08/06/2019 at 07:27 |
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Anyone familiar with hard drives is accustomed to the rounding of sizes in labeling and theoretical capacity before formatting; I certainly didn’t freak out when my 10TB drive was only 9.38GB or thereabouts after formatting - t hat’s not really the issue. But to think 2TB is a small drive whereas a 2000GB drive is huge, irrespective of formatted capacity, is the issue; t hat guy’s mind is going to be blown when we get to petabytes. Maybe I should have freaked him out by saying it was 2,000,000 megabytes, although the megabyte itself is becoming an obscure measurement in current terms, even on something as pedestrian as a phone.
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Tekamul
> facw
08/06/2019 at 09:35 |
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That IEC nomenclature is bullshit, and this is coming from someone that designs high density memories.
Trying to dumb things down because math is hard is a poor excuse for ignoring what prefixes mean. The fact that Seagate decided to label it 2000GB does nothing to tell you how much actual space is on it. If they’re chic kening out and using the decimal definition, 2TB would still be the correct label, more than 2000GB or 2000000MB. Instead, their choice leaves you wondering at which level did they decide to make the transition?
In actuality, none of it matters, because out of the box, less than 100% of the sectors are good anyways, th ey haven’t even all bee n tested, so the actual usable space is some number less than what’s on the label, to be determined by the disk controller.