| Well a lot of hard drives have unused space because they are a size which doesn't fit exactly into the size of the platters. For instance a Seagate 7200.7 has a platter size of 80GB, so the 80GB and 160GB drives fit nicely. The 120GB and 200GB drives have 40GB left unused. Now I don't know if manufacturers do like GPU makers do and use partially faulty units and only use the usable section (like a 6800 may have 4 damaged pipelines so only 12 are used) or not but I have never heard of anyone being able to reclaim that space.
__________________ "Well yes but I'm afraid I prematurely shot my wod on what was supposed to be a dry run if you will, so now I'm afraid I have something of a mess on my hands."
Tobias Fünke, M.D.  |