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Sandisk Memory Stick Pro Duo 512Mb only 468Mb |
masseur
Joined: Jan 03, 2003
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I can understand how people are upset by this issue but its just something we have to live with. as mentioned, a mb can be one of two different values
if you are a my-symbian member there is a good thread about improving your effective capacity here
I have also done a few screen shots of some examples of cards I have
my Sandisk 256mb duo pro in my P910 shown as 238mb
my Sony 512mb duo pro in my P910 shown as 468mb
my 1gb SD card in my iPAQ shown as 968.25mb
my 2gb CF card in my iPAQ shown as 1952.69mb
I'm waiting on delivery of a 5gb card for the iPAQ so it will be interesting to see what that really is too!
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P800!
Joined: Jan 25, 2004
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Now I am even more upset.
44Mb loss on 512Mb - Aaaaaaaaaaaaagh
31Mb loss on 1GB - Not to bad
47Mb loss on 2GB - Even better
I don't even want to know the loss on 5GB card
I'll be back!
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jplacson
Joined: Apr 21, 2002
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From: Philippines
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Please also remember that the kind of filing system used makes a big difference in available memory.
FAT16
FAT32
NTFS
Are some examples of Filing Systems
All of them report different capacities on the SAME OS... depending on how the drive is formatted. This is due to byte cluster size of each filing system
I'm not sure how UIQ formats disks but I'm assuming FAT16.
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P800!
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Yes UIQ uses FAT16
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BigFeat
Joined: Mar 14, 2003
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Ya know.. The manufacturers actually have spec sheets on how much usuable memory the end user will actually have with these flash memory cards. It has never been a mystery nor have they attempted to make it so. The press releases for the MSD PROs actually include data on the speed, access memory, size, etc. all broken down on a nice chart. Just go to the manufacturer of the stick that you purchased and look up some specs. It's all there.
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Posted: 2004-10-11 12:32
