Hard Drive Capacities - HP Compaq Pro 6305 Maintenance And Service Manual

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Some flat ribbon cables come prefolded. Never change the folds on these cables.
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Do not bend any cable sharply. A sharp bend can break the internal wires.
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Never bend a SATA data cable tighter than a 30 mm (1.18 in) radius.
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Never crease a SATA data cable.
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Do not rely on components like the drive cage, power supply, or computer cover to push cables
down into the chassis. Always position the cables to lay properly by themselves.

Hard Drive Capacities

The combination of the file system and the operating system used in the computer determines the
maximum usable size of a drive partition. A drive partition is the largest segment of a drive that may
be properly accessed by the operating system. A single hard drive may therefore be subdivided into a
number of unique drive partitions in order to make use of all of its space.
Because of the differences in the way that drive sizes are calculated, the size reported by the
operating system may differ from that marked on the hard drive or listed in the computer specification.
Drive size calculations by drive manufacturers are bytes to the base 10 while calculations by
Microsoft are bytes to the base 2.
File System
FAT 32
NTFS
48 Chapter 5 Routine Care, SATA Drive Guidelines, and Disassembly Preparation
Drive/Partition Capacity Limits
Controller Type Operating System
ATA Windows 7
ATA Windows 7
Maximum Size
Partition Drive
32 GB 2 TB
2 TB 2 TB