Back in the day I seem to remember that NetApp "right-sized" all of their disks. This was done to account for small differences in drive capacities from different drive manufacturers. For example, a 36GB drive was "right-sized" to 34.5GB or there about.
Is it possible that what we're seeing here is the effect of right-sizing the disks? Does NetApp still do this (Bueller....Bueller)?
Jeff Mery - MCSE, MCP National Instruments
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Darren Dunham ddunham@taos.com Sent by: owner-toasters@mathworks.com 02/24/2006 11:45 AM
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Subject Re: Aggregate size question
we have the same drives as you have, those so called '144 GB' ones :-)
When performing a sysconfig -r the filer showed me those 137 GB and i, young as i am, thought that the filer already made the conversion to binary for me. By rule of thumb this number seemed to be correct to me.
Well with a drive capacity of 134 i really get close to what i am
locking for!
Yep. Looks like 137 is not a pure "binary Gigabyte" unit for them, but a hybrid of binary/decimal.
Reported size 144GB => 1.44 * 10^11 bytes
In units of 10 ^ 9 ( 1 billion ) => 144 10^6 * 2^10 (1 million KiB) => 140.6 10^3 * 2^20 (1000 MiB) => 137.3 2^30 (1 GiB) => 134.1