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Re:Base Ten for Almost Everything by tremon on Sunday February 14, 2016 @03:49PM (#11099931)
Actually, there is little consistency in the advertised size of flash drives.

USB sticks are predominantly sold in base-2 sizes (32, 64, 128 GB etc). In fact, I don't think I've ever seen a 30GB or 100GB usb disk.

How SSD sizes are advertised depends entirely on the manufacturer, and even manufacturers don't use a single base: Samsung's EVO series are advertised in multiples of 10 (250, 500GB), while its PRO series use sizes in multiples of 2 (256, 512GB). Sandisk uses 120 GB, 240 GB sizes. I'm not even sure if all those sizes are supposed to represent base-10 or base-2 prefixes.

Re:Base Ten for Almost Everything by bboreham on Sunday February 14, 2016 @04:03PM (#11099999)
But those "32", "64", etc., numbers are times 1,000,000,000 bytes.
Re:Base Ten for Almost Everything by khedoros on Sunday February 14, 2016 @05:21PM (#11100260)
That isn't the case with some of the ones that I have on hand. This "128GB" stick is "128GB" as a multiple of 1,069,285,120. Presumably, it's 128GiB less an allocation of spare blocks and the filesystem overhead.