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Not 8 GB
on: June 12, 2009, 15:06:50 PM
I have a 7.55 GB Blu ray film here, I was going to put  it on my 8GB data traveler, so being told its
 not big enough surprised me, its 8,011,182,080 bytes.....7.46 GB
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Re:Not 8 GB
Reply #1 on: June 12, 2009, 17:18:22 PM
yup, hardware manufacturers call 1,000 bytes 1KB, software manufacturers say 1024 bytes/KB

there has been an attempt to address this by calling 1024B 1KiB or Kibibyte, but this has not yet been widely accepted, I suspect largely because it sounds stupid.
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Re:Not 8 GB
Reply #2 on: June 13, 2009, 12:40:58 PM
They also tend to use unformatted capacity, so quite a bit vanishes when you format the drive.
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