Corsair2004 Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 http://i54.tinypic.com/24edvy8.jpg what is the size of the drive? 160 or 180 gb? :roll: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 F80 as well. Just left a message w/ Ram Guy's voice mail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair2004 Posted September 16, 2010 Author Share Posted September 16, 2010 F80 as well. Just left a message w/ Ram Guy's voice mail. ah, didn't even see that one (the f80), simply because i need something over 100gb and so didn't look below that. at any rate, i do have to say, i kinda got into an email "pissing contest" based on that chart, and now look the right fool. i know mistakes happen and no doubt you have a typographical errors clause in your site rules or such, maybe, but if corsair sends me a free f160 drive, all will be better. is that a possibility? :sigh!: i mean sure, most the regulars would get :mad:, but them's the breaks. ;): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted September 16, 2010 Corsair Employee Share Posted September 16, 2010 The information is correct for these drives the F-80 and F160 have slightly more available space because of the Flash organization. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair2004 Posted September 16, 2010 Author Share Posted September 16, 2010 Please post a screen shot from Crystal Disk Info of your drive. The information is correct for these drives the F-80 and F160 have slightly more available space because of the Flash organization. i don't have the drive yet. i'm gonna buy it today/tomorrow. but if the f160 is a indeed a 180gb drive formatted so much the better. :laughing: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 but if the f160 is a indeed a 180gb drive formatted so much the better. :laughing: Incorrect! UNDER the table you posted is this: † Unformatted capacity. The total formatted capacity for the drive will be lower, depending on the operating system and file system used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synbios Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 The main reason why the formatted capacity is always lower than the advertised size is not because of the MBR/partition tables like most seem to think it is (which actually only take up kilobytes), but rather because hard drive manufacturers use true metric definitions of the prefixes. 1 gig = 1 billion bytes Windows has always use 1024 bytes to a kilobyte (officially a kibibyte), so 1 gig is not exactly 1 billion bytes. If you convert the hard drive advertised space to bytes, then work your way up to GIBIBYTES, you will get almost the exact space reported in Windows. Once you get the F160, report back here how big windows says the drive is and we'll do the conversion, I would like to see how big the drive really is in a pure sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E46Johnny Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 The extra 20GB is probably for O/P "over provisioning". This is some extra space for the controller in the drive to store/manipulate data, the larger the O/P space is, the longer it takes for the drive to go into a settle in stat.(slowing down) That extra O/P space is not, normally seen in windows. So a 100GB drive is normaly 120-128 GB drive with 20-28GB O/P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieu Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 The size is 167.58 GB (179,938,783,232 bytes). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 The size is 167.58 GB (179,938,783,232 bytes).That's the formatted size I take it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synbios Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 The size is 167.58 GB (179,938,783,232 bytes) That's the formatted size I take it? If you look at the raw bytes, it's almost exactly 180 gigabytes (179.9). The Corsair page is correct. If you convert 180 gigabytes to gibibytes, you get around 167.58, which is what's reported by Windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieu Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 If you look at the raw bytes, it's almost exactly 180 gigabytes (179.9). The Corsair page is correct. If you convert 180 gigabytes to gibibytes, you get around 167.58, which is what's reported by Windows. You hit the nail on the head! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieu Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 Installed the F160 (F180) last night. Enclosed is an ATTO benchmark with a fresh install of Windows 7 64. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mummy Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 Hi, sorry OT, but: When i started to look for SSD for my PC. I see that, bigger SSD get faster speed in same model. Now in F-series they are same in F40 to F240? ..looks like it. If i dont member wrong, this has some thing to do with RAID0 in, inside of SSD. is it so :confused: ...Anyway thats one of the reasons, why i get first 2 of F60 and not 1 of F120. Even if its little higer price to pay, its allso dubble of speed... :sunglasse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E46Johnny Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 Hi, sorry OT, but: When i started to look for SSD for my PC. I see that, bigger SSD get faster speed in same model. Now in F-series they are same in F40 to F240? ..looks like it. If i dont member wrong, this has some thing to do with RAID0 in, inside of SSD. is it so :confused: ...Anyway thats one of the reasons, why i get first 2 of F60 and not 1 of F120. Even if its little higer price to pay, its allso dubble of speed... :sunglasse It might be because the smaller drives is not using all channels on the controller. Some smaller drives is using 4 channels, some mid size is using 6 and the large ones is using 8 channals. So you could see it as some sort of internal raid 0. ::pirate:: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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