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512MB sd Kingston but actual storage is 489?

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CheapBastardo

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My 512mb kingston sd card just arrived 2day. I put this sucker into my rio S10 player(which has an initial storage of 64mb) and then check the storage indication and I see the Kingston card capacity is only 488. WHat the heck happened to the other 23 mb? or better yet what is actually on the sd card initially? Do i have to format it to get 512mb?
 
512,000,000 /1024^2 ~= 488

sounds about right to me

it's becuse storage manufacturers use a different definition of kilobyte/megabyte (1000 and 1000^2) from windows (1024 and 1024^2)
 
o dear god.

ill refer you to the FAQ's but i dont know the link find those and search for HD space or missing space and you will find the reason

MIKE
 
One would think that on a tech forum, that everyone would now the different between decimal and binary conversion and overhead needed for the FAT
 
Originally posted by: eelw
One would think that on a tech forum, that everyone would now the different between decimal and binary conversion and overhead needed for the FAT
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word :roll:
 
Originally posted by: eelw
One would think that on a tech forum, that everyone would now the different between decimal and binary conversion and overhead needed for the FAT
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have you seen the kind of people in this forum?

don't be an elitist bitch.
 
yes you got jib 😉 j/k... they're all like that

and I find it funny that your name is perfect for this thread.
 
Originally posted by: CheapBastardo
My 512mb kingston sd card just arrived 2day. I put this sucker into my rio S10 player(which has an initial storage of 64mb) and then check the storage indication and I see the Kingston card capacity is only 488. WHat the heck happened to the other 23 mb? or better yet what is actually on the sd card initially? Do i have to format it to get 512mb?
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There's porn on there. It must be porn...
 
Originally posted by: eelw
One would think that on a tech forum, that everyone would now the different between decimal and binary conversion and overhead needed for the FAT
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He's asking about a memory card, not a hard drive with operating system. 😕
 
Originally posted by: Aztech
Originally posted by: eelw
One would think that on a tech forum, that everyone would now the different between decimal and binary conversion and overhead needed for the FAT
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He's asking about a memory card, not a hard drive with operating system. 😕
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Memory cards like CF still have to be formatted using FAT. :roll:
 
Originally posted by: CheapBastardo
i am a cheap bastard indeed and I am piss. This is false advertisement.
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Uh, no. You got what you paid for - 512 decimal megabytes of storage. You going to sue Canada next because you buy a gallon of gas and get 3.78L instead? :roll:

- M4H
 
Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1
o dear god.

ill refer you to the FAQ's but i dont know the link find those and search for HD space or missing space and you will find the reason

MIKE
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yeah, this question gets posted once a month, at least
 
I'd like to think there are more important things to worry about in life.

There are people that are living in poverty, people who haven't had a meal in a few days, people who don't have a roof over their head, people whose entire lives they've seen nothing but how sh!tty the world can be. There are people who are dying for what they believe in and people killing to benefit their own lives. Then there are people who want to know where their 23MB of storage went on a memory card. Seems totally worthwhile to me. :roll:
 
same thing only from SanDisk...it's with all of them. 23MB isn't much to me...i do however get pissed off when I buy a 250GB Hard drive, but can only use 244GB :roll:
 
Originally posted by: CheapBastardo
i am a cheap bastard indeed and I am piss. This is false advertisement.
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no it's not since they say that they define a megabyte as 1,000,000 bytes. Just like all the other storage makers out there.
 
Originally posted by: Injury
I'd like to think there are more important things to worry about in life.

There are people that are living in poverty, people who haven't had a meal in a few days, people who don't have a roof over their head, people whose entire lives they've seen nothing but how sh!tty the world can be. There are people who are dying for what they believe in and people killing to benefit their own lives. Then there are people who want to know where their 23MB of storage went on a memory card. Seems totally worthwhile to me. :roll:
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umm there is nothing wrong with being curious about that. by your logic we shoudn't care about anything that's nto necessary to survival.
 
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