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UtterlyBoring.com is produced by Jake Ortman (e-mail, resume), a 33-year-old dad, percussionist, sysadmin, Web developer, IT consultant and jack-of-all-trades geek, living in Bend, Oregon. He created this so that his expensive journalism and technology degree isn't getting totally wasted. In addition to editing this site in his free time, he is the service manager at Weston Technologies. He has LinkedIn and Facebook profiles if you're trying to stalk him. He will not be posting on Twitter.
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Unused space on hard drives recovered?Has anybody tried this and had it work? Using the methods on that page, the folks there claim the following drive size increases, with no data loss: Western Digital 200GB SATAI'd be interested to see if this works, but damn, I don't know if it's worth the risk. Anybody tried it? 2 CommentsBentPenny said on 03/10/04 @ 05:16 AM:I wouldn't try this if I were you... If manufacturers could effectivle double there hard drive space with no extra costs, don't you think they would do it. This is not a good idea. Rick said on 03/10/04 @ 08:54 AM: They way I look at it, it would be cheaper to have your tools set to make one type of platter, then put that platter in several drives. The problem is, there would only be two different drive sizes (one platter or two), so it would make sense then to hide part of an 80GB platter and call the drive 40GB. Additionally, if you could make a 500GB drive, would you release it right away? I think I would release it at 200GB for $300, then when sales start to drop, release it at 220GB, then when sales start to drop..... This means that they only have to manufacture ONE drive and modify the process of putting the partitions on there rather than modifying the expensive manufacturing process. So, in answer to your question, no, I dont think they would do it. I dont think that financially it would be the best move for them. Post a comment |
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