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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.
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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.
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