11-08-2008, 07:14 PM
JoeH wrote:
That's just about right. This is where that disclaimer on hard drive sizes of them being decimal, i.e. 320 GB is 320,000,000,000 bytes, comes into play.
I got a chuckle the other day when I saw this disclaimer "Actual usable memory capacity may vary. 1MB equals 1 million bytes; 1GB equals 1 billion bytes." The thing that made me laugh was that it was on the back of a package of Crucial RAM SO-DIMMs. RAM is the one case where sizes must be based on powers of two due to how RAM is addressed with row/column binary addressing.
I suspect that they may use the same packaging for USB Flash Drives.