WD 250GB 16MB Formatted Size

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Hi can anyone who owns this drive please tell me the formatted size

also whats the best method of calculating the formatted size of a drive

thanks

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Best way to calculate the formatted size of a drive is:

(in the case of 250GB)

250,000,000,000 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024

My calculations show it to be 232.8GB formatted. (Basically, 1KB = 1024bytes on Windows, 1KB = 1000 bytes on the HD which is the reason for the difference)
 
mosfet said:
Do you notice real-world performance gains with that setup?

Well coming from 2x74GB Raptors in RAID 0 I don't notice that much of a difference, But I could not get the full performance from the Raptors anyway due to being tied to the PCI bus. :(

The 250GB's being nice and quiet & having another 327GB of useable space is the most noticable difference. :D
 
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