re: western digital 250 gigabyte hard drive partitions
Wednesday, May 18, 2005 at 4:43 pm Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by DEX
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On Tuesday, May 17, 2005 at 8:10 pm, DEX wrote:
>Just a note about fat32 and T.B. (terabytes)
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>Newer version of the FAT file system, based on 32-bit integers.
>The file system is able to handle partitions of 2 TB (terabytes) size and uses the
>storage capacity more efficiently than FAT16.
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>Definitions of terabytes
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>A terabyte is a unit of measurement in computers.
>Because of irregularities in definition and usage of the kilobyte, the exact number
>of bytes in a terabyte in common practice could be either of the following values:#
>1,000,000,000,000 bytes - 1012.
>This definition is used in most contexts relating to disk storage, networking, or
>other hardware.# 1,099,511,627,776 bytes - 10244 or 240.
>This is 1024 times a gigabyte (a binary gigabyte).
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