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3tb Drive capacity after formatting?
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jersey
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Aug 2, 2011, 01:26 PM
 
Hi All,

Wondering if anyone can tell me the formatted size of a 3 tb drive under 10.6? I'm working on a "thing" and my data ends up as about 2.85tb. Wondering if it'll fit on 1 3tb drive or if I need to go with 2 2tb drives in an array. Especially since under 10.6 capacity under OS xX is calculated in a different fashion than 10.5

Thanks for any help.
     
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Aug 3, 2011, 12:35 PM
 
Base 10 (HDD manuf, 10.6+): 2.99TB
Base 2 (all other OS): 2.73TiB
     
jersey  (op)
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Aug 3, 2011, 01:40 PM
 
Originally Posted by mduell View Post
Base 10 (HDD manuf, 10.6+): 2.99TB
Base 2 (all other OS): 2.73TiB

Thanks!
     
   
 
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