Hard Drive Differences

[NFactor]

In responce to the stupid lawsuit towards HD manufacturers I decided to take a look at my 80 GB Hard Drive Arrays on my server.

Surprisingly I discovered that after formatting, both with NTFS, the IBM drives read at 78533 MB's a piece while the Western Digital drivers are 76319 MB's.

I really don't care about 2 gig's but does anybody know why this is the case? Maybe I am just being an Idiot.

 

[Dahak]

Its partly released to the platter densities that are uses on the drives. AFAIK they each independently develop them so there are bound to be a discrepency between the sizes

 

[DoubleUhat]

They both made 80,000,000,000 bytes hdd
= 80,000,000,000 / 1,024 = 78,125,000 KB
= 78,125,000 / 1024 = 76,294 MB

They both give you more than 76,294MB, so what's your problem?