11 Jan 2007 at 20:33 #1 Rudeboy Rudeboy Associate Joined 20 Oct 2002 Posts 1,217 Location Melbourne Australia Just purchased a Corsair 2Gb x133 SD card from overclockers and am a bit disappointed to see that it formats to only 1.8Gb. Is this normal ?
Just purchased a Corsair 2Gb x133 SD card from overclockers and am a bit disappointed to see that it formats to only 1.8Gb. Is this normal ?
11 Jan 2007 at 22:42 #2 robertgilbert86 robertgilbert86 Associate Joined 1 Feb 2006 Posts 2,208 Location Newcastle upon Tyne Yes, as with hard drives, a chunk of memory is taken by the file system. My 250GB hard drive is actually only 233GB.
Yes, as with hard drives, a chunk of memory is taken by the file system. My 250GB hard drive is actually only 233GB.
12 Jan 2007 at 00:00 #3 Flibster Flibster Man of Honour Joined 18 Oct 2002 Posts 41,889 2GB = 2000MB = 2'000'000kB = 2'000'000'000B 2'000'000'000B / 1024 = 1'953'125KiB / 1024 = 1907.348MiB / 1024 = 1.862654GiB All looks ok to me. In reality we use GiB not GB. It's the difference between the computer storage companies using 1000bytes and 1024bytes as the basis. Simon/~Flibster
2GB = 2000MB = 2'000'000kB = 2'000'000'000B 2'000'000'000B / 1024 = 1'953'125KiB / 1024 = 1907.348MiB / 1024 = 1.862654GiB All looks ok to me. In reality we use GiB not GB. It's the difference between the computer storage companies using 1000bytes and 1024bytes as the basis. Simon/~Flibster
12 Jan 2007 at 00:04 #4 robertgilbert86 robertgilbert86 Associate Joined 1 Feb 2006 Posts 2,208 Location Newcastle upon Tyne My bad!
12 Jan 2007 at 01:01 #5 Rudeboy Rudeboy Associate OP Joined 20 Oct 2002 Posts 1,217 Location Melbourne Australia Clears that up. Thanks.