TW <tw@tw.com> wrote:

> I've got an old HDD Western Digital Caviar 33200.
> The label on the drive says that the capacity of the
> disk is 32493 MB (6296 cyl. 16 heads 63 spt.)

3249.3MB actually.

> However information in the Internet says that it is
> 3.2 GB, ~6296 Cylinders, ~16 heads, ~63 spt

That is correct.

> During a try of Windows XP installation it shows 3099 MB but the disk can be
> corrupted.

That is using binary MBs. A binary MB has 1024*1024 bytes.

> So what is the capacity of the Caviar 33200?

3,249,340,416 bytes

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