Re: drive size not accurate

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On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:45:59 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
<kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Talahasee wrote:

On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:15:32 -0500, "Gord Stephan"
<gord_stephan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

thank you

Gord

What you have to do, Gord, is to buy a bigger HDD than you
want.

If you want a 100 Gb, buy a 160.


Because the difference between the manufacture's definition of a billion and
Windows's definition causes you to end up with 7% less than you thought you
were getting, you should buy an extra 60%?

That makes no sense at all.

Perhaps not to you.

I have AGAIN, said NUMEROUS times that I am not a technical
person, and I give the best advice I can, on that basis.

How big a hard drive to buy does NOT need to come down to
bytes.

It has been a standing principle for the 25 + years I've
been working with computers, that one should buy a hard
drive CONSIDERABLY larger than one anticipates needing,
because as you grow into it, you're going to find out you
need a bigger hard drive.

And as cheap as hard drives are these days, it makes no
sense when you can buy a 100 gb for $20 or $30 more than
you'd spend for a 40 gb, if you do some shopping.


You should assess your *needs* (not your wants) realistically, with a view
toward your future needs.

Rubbish.

and buy what you need..Arbitrary statements like
"If you want a 100 Gb, buy a 160" are very poor advice.

It wasn't arbitrary, thank you. And where the HELL do YOU
get off calling my advice "arbitrary?"

Number 1, it was an EXAMPLE.

Number 2, I would bet a dollar (what I can afford) that I
was working on computers when you were still in diapers.


I AGAIN gave the "best advice" I could give.

Do you nitpick your wife and kids this way?

I suggest you save it for them.

As for your "makes no sense" remark, it made sense to me.

And I am betting it made sense to others, but perhaps others
don't have the stones to stand up to you.

That has never been a problem for me. I can ALWAYS tell a
jerk he's being a jerk.

You're being a jerk.

I apologized to you earlier.

It's your turn.


And some of YOUR remarks "make no sense."


Tallahassee



If you want a 200 Gb, buy a 260 or whatever is LARGER than
you need.

I recently got a 200 and ended up with less than 150 of
usable space.

My next purchase will be a 300 Gb because I'm a gamer and I
actually need 200 Gb + of space.


If *you* need 200+GB, then fine, that's what you need. But that doesn't mean
that everyone does.

I gave the above as an EXAMPLE. I would assume the RATIONAL
person would take it as such.

I would recommend that you go to a good surgeon and have the
stick removed from your ***.

And stop being such a tight ass.

Have you READ some of the ugly remarks made about you?

We can't all be computer geniuses, sir, but we can all be
civil.

Try it some time.

I have a friend who has had a 40GB drive for years and
hasn't come close to filling up half of it.

Nor did I SUGGEST otherwise.

Making me think you come LOOKING for a fight.

Don't bring your personal issues in here.

You bloody MY nose, I am QUITE capable of giving you my # 13
in the balls.

K?



You have to allow for system stuff that eats a HUGE chunk of
available space.


Not at all true.

It IS true, guy. It's a matter of perspective.

For me, if I lose TWENTY gigs from a 200 Gb hdd, that's
"huge".

System stuff eats a tiny chunk of typical hard drive sizes
these days. What takes the greatest space are files like pictures, music,
and especially video.

I am talking about the "post Windows-install" size.

I am even referring to the "post- format" size.


Do you have this issue where you simply MUST be right about
EVERYTHING ALL the time?


The only One I know who is sits on a throne in the clouds.

The rest of us hobble along the best we can!

Good luck!


Tallahassee

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