These discs say 4.7 gb, but all data storage is a bit off, sometimes by about a half gig even. What's the real average data amount per disc?
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The amount of actual storage depends on how well your data fits the nominal 2048 byte sectors and any variability in the manufacturing process. The minimum amount of raw storage has to be 3.95GB. There is also overhead for disc management. See http://www.osta.org/technology/dvdqa/dvdqa6.htm for a more detailed discussion.
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There's a marketing GB (gigabyte) which is "billion bytes" and computer GB (gibibyte or GiB) which is 2^30 bytes. DVD-R specification calls for capacity of 4,707,319,808 bytes. Leave room for overhead and round it to 4,700,000,000 bytes. Your computer will show this as 4.377 GiB. That's what confuses many consumers when they buy storage media. I don't think anyone makes 3.95GB DVD-R discs anymore.
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The one I have is for 3.5", Data capacity is 720KB, 1.25MB, 1.44MB (Formatted). Have not found a drive for the 5.25" disk yet myself.
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That is the theory of a RAID 5. I had a 4TB drive fail after a month on duty. Western Digital immediately sent me a new one, I plugged it in and it took about four days to re-establish the full RAID. My 16TB with 12 TB usable space on RAID 5 was loaded with 4TB of records. So, if you want to upgrade your system one drive at a time, better be patient.
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I'm not clear what you are asking. The length of the files, how wide, or something else. Please clarify.
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Hey Matt I have used up to 16 gb so far with no problems. I bet you could use any size, as operationally its not different software so good luck! Hope it helps!
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I'm with Eric. Two standard discs are cheaper than one DL disc, and more reliable. The only reason to use a DL disc is if you have a single chunk of data bigger than 4.7GB that has to go on one disc. In any event, please don't buy this brand -- they're unreliable, in my painful experience.
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There is a difference between how drive manufacturers specify 32GB and how Windows specifies GB. Every storage device will specify more GB and Windows will always say less due to these differences. Not going to detail them out, as the math makes my head hurt. :P
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When formatted properly there was plenty of space. Around 30 I think. But drive died after 2 months.
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Same here: 750GB x 2. They're also not RAID 0, so you don't have one drive with 1.5TB, but rather a 750GB C: drive and a 750GB D: drive.
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My computer running Windows 7 Ultimate reports Capacity 31,005,667,328 bytes 28.8 GB. Hope that helps. Extremely fast by the way.
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These card manufactures should print what the actual usable Gigs are. Something like- 64 Gig/58.5 usable.
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Depends on the size of the photo. Divide the size of the disc by the size of the photos. Example: allowing 'elbow room,' the disc is equal to 4,718,592 kb or 4,608mb. If your pictures are all around 1200kb the disc will hold around 3900 photos. If you photos are bigger, say 1.5 mb the disc will hold 3072 photos. The size the photos makes the difference.
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It's a 25 gig disk so depending on compression/codec etc. it will hold 25 gig.
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The discs have a capacity of 50 GB. You can store any type of file you want on them: movies, pictures, documents, whatever you want. I use them for backing up my system: I have many GBs of family pictures and videos, but I also back up everything else on these.
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I'm not sure if this question is specific for our listing or not but ours are 160gb as listed.
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Out of the box only 72.4GB of the 128GB SDD are free. (from a review on this product page)
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Wayne,I haven't been able to find this either, but I found this product on ebay and there was a (low-resolution) image of the discs, which might give you the answer you're looking for. Seems like a natural thing to include in the product information!Greg