Crazy yet pleasantly tart discovery

[benn600]

I just got the Kingston Elite Pro (50x) because it was the cheapest card available, which is strange because it is a high-speed card, and I already have a 1gb SD card. Guess what! The 2gb card from Kingston actually gives me 1,998mb! My 1gb SD gives me only 967mb! This is very strange and it makes me a little angry because Kingston gives what they say they give but Sandisk does not...but I don't know how other cards compare...all I know is that this will give me about a CD more of mp3 music because I'm using this 2gb card for music alone and I will get about 60mb more than if they would have given me what the Sandisk seems like it would have given! This is strange indeed!

[ikehiker]

There's nothing 'technically' wrong with how Sandisk measures memory. Most memory manufacturers (hard disks, CDRs, as well as flash memory) base their sizes on a mega byte being equal to 1 million bytes (which is accurate by math and language interpretations). However, computers see memory as two raised to the x power - a kilobyte is 2^10 (1024 bytes), a megabyte = 2^20 (1048576 bytes). Thus 1,000,000,000/1048576 = 954 (which means Sandisk gave you a little extra Of course, the file structure from formating also takes a little of the memory.

I just saw an ad last week (maybe it was for Kingston but I don't know that for sure) that stated a manufacturer was measuring their flash memory on the same terms as a computer sees it. Maybe it will catch on.

[benn600]

I understand that and it would be nice if they would start using the Windows method of measuring space because it gives us a just a little bit more space to fit those large files on our storage cards better. It is about 24mb per gigabyte extra and it doesn't hurt!