On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, Will Murnane wrote: > Most drives are sold with two significant digits in the size: 320 GB, > 400 GB, 640GB, 1.0 TB, etc. I don't see this changing any time > particularly soon; unless someone starts selling a 1.25 TB drive or > something, two digits will suffice. Even then, this formula would > give you 96% (1.2/1.25) of the disk's capacity.
If the drive is attached to a RAID controller which steals part of its capacity for its own purposes, how will you handle that? These stated drive sizes are just marketing terms and do not have a sound technical basis. Don't drive vendors provide actual sizing information in their specification sheets so that knowledgeable people can purchase the right sized drive? Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
