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

[Michael Heironimus]

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!
> >>
> >> thanks!
> >>
> >
> > 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

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Michael Heironimus