After I wrote the last article, I decided to read some "technical" journals on the subject.

What I found is "basically false". couldn't believe it. Major articles, and they don't understand it themselves. The subject, is hard drives and sectors. Most had it "wrong", some weren't. But this surprised me.

The standard, is "512 bytes per sectors" on each hard drive. I don't know if some are different, to my knowledge there isn't. I'll give the "benefit of the doubt there". They say some are different. But do say most are 512 (I think all personally).

What I will not give the "benefit of doubt" on is this. They say, of that "512 bytes per sector", there is actually more storage per sector. No, that's no true. They say that there is more for "ID Information, Synchronization Fields, ECC", and such. Basically these are areas set aside. They are NOT in addition to the 512 Byte per sector, they are part of it. That 512 is static. Some of each sector uses a piece of that "512" for info. But even at that, it's very little. There is a piece of your hard disk (not the sectors) set aside to store most information. Even this is small, because it is a simple "text storage".

I don't know how they came up with this. Maybe they don't understand the relationship of "Bytes, and the Binary numbering system (vs our powers of 10)". One Kilobyte, is actually 1024 bytes (not 1000). Therefore to them, it would seem like there was more space. No, there isn't.

I was just reading a "major" computer journal (online) and thought to myself.. These fuckers are supposed to be "experts", and I know for a "FACT" what they are stating is wrong. In a major publication even. I don't understand how they got the job.. lol. I really don't.

Anyway, I am done "venting"... Gary :)