• 1 GB storage capacity with 940 MB available
• Minimum write speeds of 15 Mbps on Memory Stick PRO Duo enabled devices optimized with 4-pin parallel interface
• Included adapter allows compatibility with Memory Stick PRO media enabled devices
• Backwards compatible with most devices that use Memory Stick PRO Duo media
It's all the math. The standard SI definition of a gigabyte is 10^9 bytes, or 1,000,000,000 bytes. This is how storage medium manufacturers advertise their drives, because a gibibyte (what most people call a gigabyte) is 1024^3 (or 2^30), which is 1,073,741,824 bytes. This is the definition Windows uses for a "gigabyte." You can see why Sony (and every other storage vendor) uses the standard definition of a gigabyte--it makes for a bigger number. It also wasn't a big difference when hard drives were small, but the differences compound until multi-gigabyte drives lose hundreds of megabytes in the math. There are also exbibytes, kibibytes, mebibytes, pebibytes, and tebibytes.
Also note that every medium loses a bit of space when formatted for the table of contents, etc.
the largest data unit is a yottabyte which is 1,000,000 bytes larger than an exabyte. And appoximately 5 Exabytes is all words ever spoken by Mankind.
Jeez!!! i wanna get a hard drive that holds 1 Yotta
that 2g stick is is 80 Mbps read/write while the 1g stick is 15 Mbps read/write. That extra speed is only good for guys using those SLR camera's. Also, the 2g sticks just came out, so Sony is trying to gouge the first adopters. By late this year those 2gig sticks should be around $150-200 hopefully. While 4gigs+ sticks should be coming on to the market en masse... again, hopefully.
Can't afford it? No Problem! There's a 90 day finance option! lol
"Sony Financing
90 days no interest, no payments on any Sony Style purchase."
As I'm sure you all know, EVERYTHING is a rip off. For example, this 1 gig stick that is selling for 135 bucks; the price to make it? Lets say about 10 bucks max, and that includes materials, labor, and TCO for assembly line equipment. Sony is making an enourmously large profit on this stuff (as every major corp is) and everytime I think about it, it just makes my blood boil! It should piss you all off too, think of all the stuff you could actually buy if it weren't for greedy corporations. Think about that, and then fire off a letter to sony, or whoever, that expresses the anger you feel twords them. This letter should contain alot of exclaimation marks, alot of capitol words, and ALOT of curse words. And if you have time, you can throw in an ASCII art middle finger.
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