Mercury elite pro firewire harddrive questions

hi all,
i got my new drive up and had a couple questions. theres a tiny ziplock baggy with a 2" strip of clear plastic with a taped back and 4 tiny oval lumps on it. i dont see any place on the drive it fits? did anyone else get one and if so whats it for? also i searched for a way to confirm the drive is a 320gb seagate 7200rpm with 16buffer. i only found 298gb listed as drive size but no info about speed and manufacturer. is there anyway to confirm my drive specs so i can make sure i got the correct drive? thank you
jeff

Those are the rubber feet for the 4 "C" clips that go on the drive. There are little indentations on those clips and the nubbins go in there to keep it from sliding around.
The reason you are seeing a size of 298GB is due to the difference between how computers see a GB as 1024MB and how HD manufacturers report their capacity as 1000MB.
Computers see a GB as 1024 x 1024 x 1024 bytes giving a total of 1,073,741,824 bytes. Multiply that by the GBs of the drive and you can see how it adds up.
You got a 320GB drive where 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes as stated by any manufacturer.
Make sense?

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