I'm 99.9% sure they are exactly the same size, or if there's a difference it's less than 125MB or so, not 5GB due to slight differences in the way each manufacturer defines their drive layout ...

In its latest cartoon, The Hard Drive is the New Bling, a young female extols the virtues of Hitachi's 1-inch and 1.8-inch hard drives amid towering, indifferent buildings in an inner city.

If you divide what a manufacturer calls a 40 GB drive (40,000,000,000 bytes) by an actual gigabyte (1,073,741,824) you will get 37.2 GB of binary measured space.

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This is all good news for those who don’t have a 120GB hard drive and are looking for ways to pick up more space.

They come in different sizes (lengths), including 2280, 2260, 2242, and 2230. They all work with the same port, but some are better suited to smaller and more compact devices, than others.

Earlier today, I was reading over the PC hardware specifications for the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and, when I reached the hard drive space requirement, did a double-take. 175 GB. For ...

Hard drive cache sizes This thread discusses whether or not the addition of extra hard drive cache memory results in a real-world performance boost. One poster inquires "Can someone tell me ...