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daydotz
Joined: Aug 14, 2004
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Does any one know How much useable memory would i get from a 1gig duo im aware from my mmc's you don't get the full 128mb useable thanks for your help
As im thinking of buying a 1gig duo later today
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Coxy
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About 970 or 980 i think
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batesie
Joined: Feb 13, 2004
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bout 920MB
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jeko.uk
Joined: Dec 31, 2004
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so what happens to the other 92mb
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private
Joined: Feb 04, 2005
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Mine has 949 MB
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atconc
Joined: Sep 01, 2005
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@ Jeko
The differences are because manufacturers quote unformated sizes, when the card is formatted some space is lost in filesystem overheads (little bits of data that are used by the operating system to let it know what files are where etc).
I think the manufacturers mostly quote unformatted sizes because 1gb sounds better than 960 mb but they would probably argue that they don't know how you're going to format the card and different file formats will have different overheads
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Yazan24
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I think it should be 1050 so that the usable memory is 1gb |
jeko.uk
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cheers atconc
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bondock
Joined: Jul 05, 2004
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971872 KB after formatting to be precise  |
daydotz
Joined: Aug 14, 2004
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Thanks i think they should allow so you get the full memory to loose over 50mb is alot thats sure to double on a 2gig
Card why do they need that much space its not fair
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gozzy
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On 2005-09-02 14:55:38, atconc wrote:
@ Jeko
The differences are because manufacturers quote unformated sizes, when the card is formatted some space is lost in filesystem overheads (little bits of data that are used by the operating system to let it know what files are where etc).
I think the manufacturers mostly quote unformatted sizes because 1gb sounds better than 960 mb but they would probably argue that they don't know how you're going to format the card and different file formats will have different overheads
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Manufacturers quote 1gb for 1000mb not the true 1024mb |
701
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I have a 512 mb card and some 490 mb available.
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procterdc
Joined: Jun 03, 2005
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Different makes of 1gig cards will be different in available memory. Ie Sony memory sticks may have more than say iomega or someone else. This is due to memory cache(ing) Its best to buy sony ones i think as they have been designed for use with sony products therefore being 100% compatible.
Hope this helps
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daeid
Joined: Jan 06, 2004
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One person hit it on the head, for probably 20 years, propage devices have advertised size based on the 1000 byte to meg instead of 1024. This will never change. Just divide advertised size by 1024 and multiply by 1000, you now know the true max size, and filesystem overhead takes some.
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atconc
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...why do they need that much space its not fair
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The amount of space used is proportional to the size of the storage device, think how complicated it is to keep track of all the files stored on a 2gig card and losing 50 mb isn't that bad.. Formatting one of the new 500 gig hard drives loses you 35GB! |
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