[Short Hand]

Just picked up a 160gb WD Cavier HD for 99 $, + - another 50 $ with the gift certificates I had, so about 50 bucks in total for a 160gb HD. Just got it in and working now, enjoying it very much over my 40gb 5400 2mb cache WD drive which I have been using for a long time.

[Bucknub]

Prolly some mail in rebate shit

[Cool Fool]

well...im gettin new bball shoes from footlocker with the giftcard i got...yeah...so...ummm...yeah.

[Short Hand]

36 doller mail in rebate, 44 doller instant rebate, going to take around 2 months for the rebate to get back to me.

+ for gerv and akuma, is it normal to lose 11 gb of storage on a drive after it has been formatted ? it reads as 149gb of storage...on my old 40gb drive I only lost 1.5gb of space.. im losing close to 11gb on this one.. is this normal on larger drives ?

[Akuma]

Yeah, that's normal.

I lost 9GB on my Seagate 120gb.

[Mr_Gl@ss]

[quote="Short Hand":423de]+ for gerv and akuma, is it normal to lose 11 gb of storage on a drive after it has been formatted ? it reads as 149gb of storage...on my old 40gb drive I only lost 1.5gb of space.. im losing close to 11gb on this one.. is this normal on larger drives ?[/quote:423de]

It's all about the marketing see? The hard drive manufacturers count megabytes one way and windows counts it another. If it was a retail drive there's usually a disclaimer somewhere about this. Semi related, few years ago watched an old guy break out a ruller at Best Buy when he was looking to buy a 17" montor (CRT), was demanding to know why his 17" monitor wasn't 17 inches.

[Akuma]

[quote="Mr_Gl@ss":b1836][quote="Short Hand":b1836]+ for gerv and akuma, is it normal to lose 11 gb of storage on a drive after it has been formatted ? it reads as 149gb of storage...on my old 40gb drive I only lost 1.5gb of space.. im losing close to 11gb on this one.. is this normal on larger drives ?[/quote:b1836]

It's all about the marketing see? The hard drive manufacturers count megabytes one way and windows counts it another.[/quote:b1836]
Ya... It's all the fault of a byte. A byte is actually 8 bits but manufacutes round up to 10 for sake of ease. The larger the drive, the larger the size error.

[Old Reliable]

my 160 also reads 149

[Gonzo]

Originally Posted by Akuma

Yeah, that's normal.

I lost 9GB on my Seagate 120gb.

same my 120 shows up at 111 it kinda pisses me off

[Bucknub]

Originally Posted by Gonzo

same my 120 shows up at 111 it kinda pisses me off

[Michael]

[quote="Short Hand":f50d7]Just picked up a 160gb WD Cavier HD for 99 $[/quote:f50d7]you could have gotten a 300 gig HD for the same price at tigerdirect

[Akuma]

[quote=M79]

Originally Posted by "Short Hand":397f5

Just picked up a 160gb WD Cavier HD for 99 $

you could have gotten a 300 gig HD for the same price at tigerdirect[/quote:397f5]
link?

[Short Hand]

[quote=M79]

Originally Posted by "Short Hand":d46e5

Just picked up a 160gb WD Cavier HD for 99 $

you could have gotten a 300 gig HD for the same price at tigerdirect[/quote:d46e5]

Ya right... a 250gb @ newegg = 200 American.

[MotoxXx]

[quote=Akuma]

Originally Posted by M79

you could have gotten a 300 gig HD for the same price at tigerdirect

link?[/quote:935e3] Yea I'm wanting a link also. I did a little searching and [url=http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1197385:935e3]this[/url:935e3]is the closest I could find.

[Michael]

guess ur 2 late...i saw a 300gig HD at TD last week in the HD's section. they must have stopped that sale.