Originally Posted by
DenverBrian
How about this?
http://support.wdc.com/product/downl...pid=111&sid=34
Seems odd to me that a supposedly 1TB sized hard disk can't be used for all its 1TB (or 860GB or whatever).
Again, I've used MyBooks for many years for backup, but not using WD's backup software (I've found xcopy does just fine).
There's been a bit of discussion about this, especially regarding this drive.
1. The "CD" takes up a whole partition (the only one that's visible), but it's less than half a gig.
2. Disk manufacturers tout their disk sizes using decimal notation, i.e., a 1 TB disk contains 1,000,000,000,000 bytes (more or less). However, computer systems (My Computer, chkdsk, etc.) all report sizes using computer notation, i.e., 1K =1024, 1M = 1024 x 1024 = 1,048,576, and so on. By doing the math 'backwards', 1 trillion (decimal) = ~931 G (binary notation).
If you were a disk manufacturer, would you rather sell a 1 TB disk or a 931 GB disk? (Same disk)
