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04/24/05
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rjsmith
| Missouri USA
Why is it that it says a gig, but there is only 940 MB available? That is 84 MB I could use.
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04/24/05
poly4life
| New York USA
Gosh, for the millionth time, the 1GB is the metric format, while the ~940MB is the actual storage in binary.
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04/24/05
w00tzer
| Ohio USA
is it 940MB after formatting, or less?
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04/24/05
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coopermor
| Maine USA | XBC: FranklinMcTankliN!
I heard the sony has about 986 and sandisk has a little less. But I'm prolly wrong.
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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.
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04/24/05
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jasiu
| Wisconsin USA
04/24/05
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whatever
| UK
the magicgate stuff also takes up some space :-(
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04/24/05
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iDean
| Ontario Canada
Yeah a true GB is 1.24 "Windows" GB's Apple uses the true format.
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04/25/05
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C17H21NO4
| Tennessee USA
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
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04/25/05
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striker426
| California USA
that's a Yotta memory...LOL
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04/25/05
HaRdCoRPS
| Florida USA
04/25/05
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adrifter
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how come it is $135 on link but the 2 gig version is $499 on the same site.
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04/25/05
GB
| California USA
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."
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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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04/26/05
weldon
| California USA
i work at a retail store that makes chemicals, and a chemical we sell for 150 bucks costs less than 3 dollars to make.
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