Why is the size of my HD not 80Gb(FS195VP), as in spec, but 66GB?

[shubi]

Hi, i ordered a new VGN-FS195VP about 5 days ago, after some research. At that time, It was also part of the FS range on the sony site.

My new laptop arrived yesterday, looking at the hard disc, it totals to 66GB, not the 80GB as had been listed on the sony site and numerous dealer sites last week.

I re-visited sony.co.uk, and to my astonishment, find the VGN-FS195VP not part of the FS series anymore. Spoke to the dealer and they weren't sure what was going on. Nobody could answer my query on the disk space issue either.

Does anyone know anything about it being withdrawn and what's with the hard disk capacity?

thnx in advance.

S.

[seb21__]

It's a Hitachi Travelstar 5K100.

BTW, I think not that this drive has 100GB.
I have a Travelstar 80GN. My drive has :

116280 cylinders
16 heads
63 sectors per track


that makes 117210240 sectors X 512 bytes(per sector) are 60011642880 bytes. That are excatly 55,89019775390625 Gigabyte.

Now, you can see that my 60GB harddisk has not 60GB.
And the same is with your harddisk.

[Eugenepang]

very misleading....

[Jay1]

just take the model and make of the hdd then go to there web site and then check the spec there for the excact figure that wht i did.

[kee-lo_]

Wow Seb thats some calculations.

[seb21__]

Yeah, but that's the correct size. I don't know why it's call as 60GB HDD, if it has only 55,9GB.

You can check this with Everest Home Edition. Or you can check the website of the manufacturer of your HDD. LOL it's really easy.

[kee-lo_]

True