This external device comes in a range of hard drive sizes, from 4.3 to 10 gigabytes.

And the mixed drive sizes is great!

As the drive size grows, the amount of time needed to scan for free space can become unreasonable.

The standard internal hard drive size is 160 GB.

The process can take a few minutes or several hours, depending on the hard drive size, Windows version and degree of fragmentation.

If the value in the register is set to less than the actual hard drive size then effectively a host protected area is created.

Doing the math with lots of different drive sizes to try to figure out how much usable space you get quickly becomes a brain-twisting experience.

If that was the case, then they would also report different "total" drive sizes wouldn't they?

As Internet bandwidth availability and hard drive sizes have increased, higher bit rates up to 320 kbit/s are widespread.

The total hard drive size supported increased to 137.4 gigabytes.