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Total capacity for X25-m 160GB G2 going down?

idata — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:59:40 GMT

I could've sworn windows 7 used to report the drive had a total capacity of 149GB, but it now says 148GB? Am I going crazy?

Re: Total capacity for X25-m 160GB G2 going down?

idata — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:04:02 GMT

On my MacBook Pro, I have this capacity:

X25-M 160GB G2 (FW:02HD):

Capacity: 159.7 GB (159,697,911,808 bytes)

Re: Total capacity for X25-m 160GB G2 going down?

idata — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:45:53 GMT

Up until the last byte I got the same capacity as you have.

Re: Total capacity for X25-m 160GB G2 going down?

idata — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:37:07 GMT

I do show capacity as precisely 159,934,050,304 bytes (148 GB) as well.

I haven't tracked if firmware updates or Windows Updates or anything may have altered that over time though.

Re: Total capacity for X25-m 160GB G2 going down?

idata — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:52:37 GMT

You are missing almost exactly 100 MB because by default Windows 7 creates a system reserved partition of this size on a boot disk that was not formatted prior to the first install. It will do this with any fresh drive regardless of whether it is an SSD or mechanical. I'm running my 160 GB as a secondary with 160,038,097,904 bytes capacity and if you do the math the difference between your number is 99.9992 MB but we'll call it a round 100 MB : )