A pleasant surprise with a hard disk

Last night, while installing another drive in my daughter's eMachines PC
(from 2 years ago), I discovered that its "40-GB hard disk" was a 100-GB
disk with only 40 GB partitioned. (Western Digital.) We made another
partition out of the remaining space and it works fine.

How many other "40-GB disks" have this problem, I wonder?

"Michael A. Covington" wrote in message
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Last night, while installing another drive in my daughter's eMachines PC
(from 2 years ago), I discovered that its "40-GB hard disk" was a 100-GB
disk with only 40 GB partitioned. (Western Digital.) We made another
partition out of the remaining space and it works fine.

How many other "40-GB disks" have this problem, I wonder?



WD has been known to do this intentionally. I bought a "25G" generically
boxed WD drive on sale at Best Buy. When I took it home and opened it, a
note fell out saying something to the effect of, "You just got more than you
paid for!"
The drive was 30G. Not so dramatic a difference as yours, but still...


Mark Z.

On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 04:32:52 -0500, "Mark D. Zacharias"
wrote:


WD has been known to do this intentionally. I bought a "25G" generically
boxed WD drive on sale at Best Buy. When I took it home and opened it, a
note fell out saying something to the effect of, "You just got more than you
paid for!"
The drive was 30G. Not so dramatic a difference as yours, but still...


Mark Z.


That sounds like an end of line replacement. Marketing has lagged
behind the actual product availability.

Anyone buying a specific size drive does not want to see an advert for
a larger drive at the same price a few days later!


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On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 04:32:52 -0500, "Mark D. Zacharias"
wrote:



WD has been known to do this intentionally. I bought a "25G" generically
boxed WD drive on sale at Best Buy. When I took it home and opened it, a
note fell out saying something to the effect of, "You just got more than you
paid for!"
The drive was 30G. Not so dramatic a difference as yours, but still...


Mark Z.



That sounds like an end of line replacement. Marketing has lagged
behind the actual product availability.

Anyone buying a specific size drive does not want to see an advert for
a larger drive at the same price a few days later!


Steve

While it seems like a nice bonus, I can imagine situations where it
would be undesirable (e.g. if a particular hardware combination were
certified for some use). Imagine a case where you thought you were
buying a 120 GB drive and instead got a 160 GB that your BIOS wouldn't
handle properly.

On balance, I think I'd prefer to get what I expected.

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