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

[Brian Wood]

Josh White wrote:
> Actually, most cars deliver about 80% of their rated engine horsepower
> to the road.  And the 20% that doesn't go to the road is the energy
> required to transmit the energy from the flywheel, through the
> transmission which converts the output speed/torque to a useful level,
> and so forth.  Nothing's free in the world of thermodynamics.  If cars
> were rated in their wheel horsepower, then the numbers would come out
> correctly.  If you look closely, most cars are advertised as having a
> "300hp engine," not "300hp available at the drive wheels."  Also,
> there's a new SAE standard for rating engine horsepower, which increased
> the number of significant figures involved, the accuracy of the rating,
> and the way 3rd party verification is handled.  You may have noticed
> cars such as the Honda Civic Si, which has a 197hp engine, rather than
> the 200hp engine it was advertised to have in all the car magazines. 
> The engine doesn't have any more or less hp than planned, it's simply
> rated in a different way. 
> 
> /just sayin'

I knew I shouldn't have put that one in.

You're correct of course, and the SAE even supervises HP tests now.

Guess I'm thinking of back in the days when brake horsepower at the
flywheel numbers were tossed around with the same abandon as the "IHF
Music Power" of a stereo amp.

beww