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I think the most surprising thing from this article is that microSD cards may not even have a decimal amount of space; while all the hard drives I've encountere
by userbinator 1y ago
I think the most surprising thing from this article is that microSD cards may not even have a decimal amount of space; while all the hard drives I've encountered have at least that much if not somewhat more, apparently the expectation that a 32GB microSD card be able to store 32,000,000,000 bytes isn't the norm. How do the manufacturers find a way to explain that? It's definitely bordering on fraud at that point.
- brudgers 1y agofrom the fine article: according to the SD Physical Layer Specification, “Card Capacity means the sum of User Area Capacity and Protected Area Capacity” Which makes sense from a manufacturing perspective...what hardware is required to make the thing? Also makes sense from a marketing perspective...bigger is better right? And legally, it's right there in the fine print...that's what "SD" means your honor.
- bell-cot 1y agoIf you're surprised by that...stay away from magnetic tape storage. The headline "capacities" of those are usually based on optimistic data compression ratios.