2TB drives

R088ieS86 · 13 Aug 2012 at 14:35

Hey Folks,

So far I have being buying Samsung F4s and Seagate Barracuda Green drives because I have found them the best.

But they are built using 3x667GB platters.

I wondering what space people have been getting on the newer 2 platter 2TB drives?

I'm fairly sure they are supposed to be 2 x 1TB platters.

Do you get the extra 200GB storage?

wazza300 · 13 Aug 2012 at 14:43

they are slightly faster from what ive seen,as for extra 200gb storage i doubt it,its just the way windows sees/calulates megabytes

f4 is a good drive still

R088ieS86 · 13 Aug 2012 at 15:12

I do like my F4s but 200GB, if useable, is quite a lot of space; media wise - when I am running low on SATA connections every GB counts!

rpstewart · 13 Aug 2012 at 16:10

Where is this 200gb coming from? 3 x 667 is 2000, 2 x 1000 is 2000...

wazza300 · 13 Aug 2012 at 16:35

my 2tb,its the same with any hdd,new and old,you always lose space due to the way windows sees megabytes,manufacturers should advertise the correct size

Surveyor · 13 Aug 2012 at 16:38

They haven't changed the way they measure the capacity of HDDs.

They're both 2 x 10^9 bytes.

You still get 1.81GB (2 x 2^30 bytes), technically 1.81GiB, as seen in Windows.

panyan · 13 Aug 2012 at 16:41

Surveyor said:
They haven't changed the way they measure the capacity of HDDs.

They're both 2 x 10^9 bytes.

You still get 1.81GB (2 x 2^30 bytes), technically 1.81GiB, as seen in Windows.

I thought 1.81GB = 2.00 GiB?

Surveyor · 13 Aug 2012 at 16:54

panyan said:
I thought 1.81GB = 2.00 GiB?

2.00GB = 1.81GiB

HD manufacturers measure in GB (10^9 bytes).

Windows measures in GiB (2^30 bytes).

GB is generally used to refer to both though :confused:

panyan · 13 Aug 2012 at 17:03

Surveyor said:
2.00GB = 1.81GiB

i got that backwards

Surveyor · 13 Aug 2012 at 18:42

Just realised I'm talking GB instead of TB but the same principal applies.

2.00TB = 1.81TiB

HDD manufacturers measure in TB (10^12 bytes).

Windows measures in TiB (2^40 bytes).

R088ieS86 · 13 Aug 2012 at 19:08

I'm not sure how I managed to get myself mixed up there... long day at work. Cheers for the clear up guys. Will keep the Sammys going.