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i was a boot sale and i saw a load of hard drives 4 sale (second hand) they looked like most of them were riped out of old/new computers. the problem is when i was looking at some of them they said 4 example 50 sectors and some other suff, but it did not say that the hard drive was 4 gig,20 gig or anything like that. i would like 2 no how to read and understand how big a harddrive is by looking at the sector sizes on there own. can any 1 shed any light on da subject :rolleyes:
I would imagine google is still operational. A bit frustrating at times but still an excellent source of information.
that the hard way ;)
....ask someone who works there...lol
did a lil research for ya ;)
Sectors
The physics behind reading and writing of data onto the hard disk is invisible to the user because the operating system hides all the complexity involved. Instead it presents a simplified, logical hard disk layout to whatever program is performing the input/output (I/O) operations. In this model, the entire hard disk space is supposed to be divided into little “boxes” called sectors. Every sector can hold a maximum of 512 bytes of data. So, if a 2000-byte file would occupy 4 sectos leaving 48 bytes of unused space in the last sector.
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You shouldn't have, really.
nice 1 ;) ;)
Alot of hard drives will say their specs on the drive atleast, if not the actual size, then perhaps the number of sectors, like foxx explained.
by the way....512 bytes=.5 KB...so 50 sectors of 512 bytes=25 KB.... ...... ...........lololol
ballam...what do you mean i shouldnt have? is this info wrong? cuz i really dont know...thats an awful small hd lol
btw, talkin about hd size.
I recently sent an old 40gb (5400 rpm) maxtor hardrive back for warrenty.
They sent me a brand new model 60gb (7200 rpm) HD in return!
Man Maxtor is nice!!
**Hunts around for his 4 year old 20GB WD.Quote:
Originally posted by Wolfmight@15 September 2003 - 23:44
btw, talkin about hd size.
I recently sent an old 40gb (5400 rpm) maxtor hardrive back for warrenty.
They sent me a brand new model 60gb (7200 rpm) HD in return!
Man Maxtor is nice!!
Most manufacturers will replace a defective drive with the current equivalent or better. Some retailers also have a plan where you'll get the next best item in stock if yours is no longer available in store.