Re: Another somewhat off topic - SD card formatted size vs. actual

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From: Sven, MVP-Mobile Devices (sejohannsen_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/22/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 19:52:59 -0700

Bought any lumber recently? Did you measure the 2x4 when you go home? Darn
thing is 3.5 x 1.75", the bastids. How many square feet are in your house?
Bet they are counting all that space taken up by walls. It's just the way
the industry has always counted memory, and then there is the formatting on
top of it. Kind of like walls in your house, they take up space, but are
pretty important in making what's left usable. Find another cause to be
indignant about. This one isn't worth the ulcer. 

-- 
Sven, MS-MVP  Mobile Devices
"James B" <nospam@here.com> wrote in message
news:HYZxd.14687$823.588796@twister.southeast.rr.com...
> I posted that I was having trouble with my card so while working with it I
> noticed a few things that really tick me off. I know formatted size and
real
> size are never the same but I have Pocket Mechanic and in looking in it at
> the disk I see this which ticked me off even more:
>
> Sandisk 256 MB SD Card:
>     Physical Geometry
>             Size 252887040 bytes
>     Space
>             239MB
>
> Now this card just got reformatted for the 5th time in 3 days but that
> should nto effect this reporting that shows my 256MB card isn't 256MB but
> 252.8MB, yeah I'm making a point about less than 4 MB and formatted it is
> only 239MB, that's a lot of overhead!
>
> What if when you went and bought gas you only got .87 gallons for every
> gallon because of "formatting overhead" or your boss only paid you 97% of
> your pay. I think we would see some real screaming going on pretty fast so
> why do flash menory guys and even hard drive manufactures get away with
> this?
>
>

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