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Re:Base Ten for Almost Everything by Avernar on Sunday February 14, 2016 @08:14PM (#11100936)
> thumb drive capacities

I don't recall ever seeing a thumb drive advertised base 10. Have you seen base 10 for thumb drives often?

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Re:Base Ten for Almost Everything by brucedawson on Monday February 15, 2016 @06:39PM (#11106914)
I have never seen a thumb drive advertised using anything other than base 10. You have probably assumed that since thumb drives and SD cards typically have capacities of 8/16/32/64 GB that the GB are actually GiB. But that assumption is wrong.

Check out the actual capacity. As I mentioned in the blog post, every flash drive and SD card that I have checked has used the base-10 GB. The extra capacity is there, but it is kept in reserve for bad blocks and headroom needed for efficient use of flash. It is entirely invisible outside of the flash drive.

Base 10 is far more prevalent in computing than most computer experts realize.

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