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Old March 22nd, 2006, 11:44 AM
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Buying one of these.

Question is whether I can remove it from the case and use it as an internal drive. I have a free internal USB 2.0 port attached to a 4 port external USB 2.0 PCI card I bought a few weeks ago which I'm not using.

Am I correct in thinking that the case is only there for protection???
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Old March 22nd, 2006, 12:14 PM
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The case is for protection, and of course to provide the external interface. Some external drive manufacturers make it impossible (or at least terribly difficult) to remove the drive from the case, but fortunately Maxtors can be removed by simply undoing a few screws. Doing so voids the warranty though.

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Old March 22nd, 2006, 12:31 PM
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Cheers mate

That's what I thought. Not a bad price either eh!
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Old March 22nd, 2006, 02:36 PM
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Don't ask me buddy, that price translates to AUD$240. Here in Ozland, I can get a similar one for $234, or an internal SATA for $170. That VAT must be killing ya?
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Old March 24th, 2006, 04:16 PM
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Plumped for it in the end. Just plugged it in and there is only 279 gig of free space showing as the local disk.

How come I've been shortchanged 21 gigs worth???
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Actually, Windows shows binary unit sizes, and it's only a 286GiB drive, but that's still 7GiB missing. Does Disk Managment report any unused portion? That's an odd amount to be missing (Windows either shows all a drive's space, or only 127GiB pre-SP1). Is there anything on the disk already (eg. Maxtor software/tools)? Only the one partition?
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Old March 24th, 2006, 06:06 PM
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Just right clicked and checked the properties and it is showing as 299,820,195,840 unused.

Although I do find it strange that there is 250mb used space but I haven't dropped anything on there yet. It is a single partition as well.
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Oops, big mistake. 279GiB is correct.

300GB = 300,000MB = 300,000,000KB = 300,000,000,000Bytes
300,000,000,000,000B = 292,968,750KiB = 286,102.294MiB = 279.397GiB
(Remember, Windows shows file sizes in KiB/MiB/GiB, even though it displays the decimal prefix)

Before I only converted down to KB then back to GiB, instead of down to B.
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Oops, big mistake. 279GiB is correct.

300GB = 300,000MB = 300,000,000KB = 300,000,000,000Bytes
300,000,000,000,000B = 292,968,750KiB = 286,102.294MiB = 279.397GiB
(Remember, Windows shows file sizes in KiB/MiB/GiB, even though it displays the decimal prefix)

Before I only converted down to KB then back to GiB, instead of down to B.
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