New Hard Drive, but just shy of a TB
I recieved my 400gb Seagate SATA II hard drive today. It is formatting right now, and taking too frickin long if you ask me. Unfortunately my server is only SATA I right now, but I use it for storage more than anything else so I don’t need it to move that quick since the network is slower than the hard drive. It partitioned out to 372.61gb. I hate that they say it is 400gb when it always partitions lower. For those that don’t know it is actually (((GB*1,000,000,000)/1024)/1024)/1024 which in the case of a 400gb comes to 372.529gb, so it was very close. With this new drive it brings my server up to about 1tb of storage.
2 x Seagate 120gb SATA I
1 x Maxtor 160gb EIDE
1 x Maxtor 200gb SATA I
1 x Seagate 400gb SATA II
so with that formula that is 931.32gb of storage. I do not use small drive in this machine, otherwise I could throw in 2 x 40gb drives to bring it to 1005.83 gb or 0.982252tb.
The drive has been formatting for about an hour and it is at 50% done. I think that when I build a new desktop I am going to go with 3×750gb and a Raptor. I havn’t decided on the AMD or Intel yet, the X2 AMDs are nice, but I have heard some Intels are performing better. With AMD coming out with a quad core next year we will see how that compares and where Intel is with their quad core.
