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Computer memory and storage
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RE: Computer memory and storage
June 29, 2016 at 12:16 pm
Older people should know not to reminisce unless asked to. I was wondering if I was having a nightmare there, for a second.
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RE: Computer memory and storage
June 29, 2016 at 12:17 pm
(June 29, 2016 at 5:58 am)pocaracas Wrote:
(June 29, 2016 at 1:09 am)dyresand Wrote: This didn't hit me until now but i have a 32gb flash drive and it only has 
29.7 but in reality it is a 32gb drive but i would love that 2 extra gb though.

32GB are 32 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 bytes = 32,000,000,000 bytes. (you know how the decimal system works, right?)

32GiB are 32 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 bytes = 34,359,738,368 bytes. (they call these Gibibytes)

32,000,000,000 bytes /1024 /1024 /1024 = 29.8GiB.


Your computer counts GiBs (and calls them GB), the storage manufacturers count GBs. They're referring to different things and make it sound dishonest... yeah... welcome to the real world.

The funny thing is, because the memory circuit size is a power of two, they can't possibly fit exactly 32,000,000,000 bytes of memory on the device. It has to be somewhat more or less than stated.
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RE: Computer memory and storage
June 29, 2016 at 1:17 pm
How much more porn do you need? Geeze!
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RE: Computer memory and storage
June 29, 2016 at 1:21 pm
(June 29, 2016 at 1:17 pm)Mr.wizard Wrote: How much more porn do you need? Geeze!

Well, quite a bit.  I have varied and esoteric interests.
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RE: Computer memory and storage
June 29, 2016 at 1:22 pm
(June 29, 2016 at 12:16 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: Older people should know not to reminisce unless asked to. I was wondering if I was having a nightmare there, for a second.

When I was a kid, coding was a nightmare.  Sticks were ones and rocks were zeroes.
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RE: Computer memory and storage
June 29, 2016 at 2:26 pm
(June 29, 2016 at 1:22 pm)vorlon13 Wrote:
(June 29, 2016 at 12:16 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: Older people should know not to reminisce unless asked to. I was wondering if I was having a nightmare there, for a second.

When I was a kid, coding was a nightmare.  Sticks were ones and rocks were zeroes.

You had sticks and rocks? Luxury!
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RE: Computer memory and storage
June 29, 2016 at 5:25 pm
Not really, damn dog kept running off with the sticks
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RE: Computer memory and storage
June 29, 2016 at 5:34 pm
(June 29, 2016 at 2:10 am)Mathilda Wrote: 1) You do use that extra 2 GB
2) If you devoted that extra 2GB to storage you wouldn't be able to find anything on the drive

Whilst it's true that some portion of the drive is reserved for the file allocation table, on a 32GB drive there's no way that table would be 2GB by default. It's probably in the region of a few MB.

Pocaracas' answer is the correct one.
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RE: Computer memory and storage
June 29, 2016 at 5:34 pm
My first computer was a Mac plus. 20 MBs external storage and 1 MB memory. Still have it in good working condition.

Now I can't imagine having less storage than at least 1 TB.
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RE: Computer memory and storage
June 29, 2016 at 5:47 pm
(June 29, 2016 at 5:34 pm)Tiberius Wrote:
(June 29, 2016 at 2:10 am)Mathilda Wrote: 1) You do use that extra 2 GB
2) If you devoted that extra 2GB to storage you wouldn't be able to find anything on the drive

Whilst it's true that some portion of the drive is reserved for the file allocation table, on a 32GB drive there's no way that table would be 2GB by default. It's probably in the region of a few MB.

Pocaracas' answer is the correct one.

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