Warning: Sandisk CompactFlash card capacity is deceiving!

[kyutip]

The Register

Hmm, cheating out our money eh.
better stick with other company now (Lexar, Kingston, etc)

out of 64MB CF, you only have about 61MB available.
so, they save 3MB per 64MB.

 

[Murphyrulez]

SanDisk uses 1000KB to equal 1M where as Microsoft and some other companies use 1024KB to equal 1M

That's funny! I wrote them a nice email telling them that I won't be buying their products, and what I thought of their calculations...

I urge everyone else to do so!!!

Paul

 

[goog40]

Let's write to Maxtor, Western Digital, and IBM too

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

<< Let's write to Maxtor, Western Digital, and IBM too >>

exactly what i thought of. not a big deal. most p00ter people know about this type of stuff anyone. one says 1000, one says 1024.

 

[ISAslot]

My 16MB SanDisk CF card's capacity is only 15,974,400 bytes! :|