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892.6 Petabyte Hard Drive
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Jul 29, 2004, 11:56 PM
 
According to Disk Utilities, my crashed external FireWire drive has 892.6 PB of storage capacity. I didn't realize Disk Utilities was written to handle such sizes.


Name : Prolific PL3507 Combo Device
Type : Disk

Disk Identifier : disk1
Media Name : Maxtor 6 Y200P0 Media
Media Type : Generic
Connection Bus : FireWire
Writable : Yes
Ejectable : No
Mac OS 9 Drivers Installed : No
Location : External
Total Capacity : 892.6 PB (1,004,931,217,620,206,000 Bytes)
Disk Number : 1
Partition Number : 0
     
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Jul 30, 2004, 12:07 AM
 
perhaps it's an undocumented feature of Maxtor hard drives... one million times the amount of storage you paid for
     
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Jul 30, 2004, 01:29 PM
 
Originally posted by MaxPower2k3:
perhaps it's an undocumented feature of Maxtor hard drives... one million times the amount of storage you paid for
Har, har...har, har.
     
   
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