Overhead on memory sticks?

On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 18:31:22 -0700, Joerg wrote in Msg.

Where did the 19 come from? One "official" MB is 2^20 bytes.

robert

On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:06:03 -0400, Phil Hobbs wrote in Msg.

I know, but in this case the 10^6 vs 2^20 arithmetic just works out too nicely to be written off as coincidence.

robert

Oops, slipped a bit. But it's just a few orders of magnitude :-)

In my experience, the disk file system is in the user's space and any "hot spare sectors" are unavailable.

How much silicon in 38MB ?

Well, the FACTS would be *news* to YOU.

The FACT is that the vast majority of DEVICE MANUFACTURERS thought that M$'s implementation WRT the actual USB spec was poor and few **vendors** saluted it. This makes trying to find a piece of gear that has these drivers (aka hen's teeth) a complete waste of time.

If you want to use Windoze, get a version that is supported by the device manufacturer ...and read what's on the damned box BEFORE you pay for any gear

--if it doesn't EXPLICITLY mention your OS, IT DOESN'T SUPPORT IT.

measure again using a unit of agreed size (like bytes)

Bye. Jasen

hard-drive makers have been doing this for decades.

Bye. Jasen

Wrong, it's either 1024MiB or 1000MB depending on context: In ram, it's 2^30 bytes, in hard disks it's 10^9 bytes. Bye. Jasen

Over here (UK) it's possible to buy 1GB USB drives for $10

Bytes are the same, the defination of G is at issue.

Its like:

The sales man and engineer agree that the product will be available on the same day.

The sales man means: first thing in the morning, the engineer means: by the end of the day.

donald

On a sunny day (6 Apr 2007 01:47:40 GMT) it happened jasen wrote in :

DVD too, 4.7GB is actually 4 700 000 000 bytes exactly.

On a sunny day (5 Apr 2007 15:43:52 -0700) it happened "JeffM" wrote in :

That is not always true. It helps for the ignorant, but for example USB sticks and SD cards etc.. are recognized as mass storage by Linux. Even if it is not mentioned on the box. There is no need to respect the FAT filesystem it comes pre-formatted with either, cat mymovie.mpg > /dev/sda1 works, and playing it with cat /dev/sda1 | mplayer - does too. I remember buying a Creative Webcam in the nineteen hundreds, and asked the guy if it worked in Linux. He said no way. But I found a DOS driver with source, ported it, wrote an interface. Many things work in Linux, but not all.

I was hoping that folks would keep this bit in mind as they read the entire paragraph.

Jan Panteltje wrote:

Yes. The word "Legendary" springs to mind.

I was trying to say **doesn't EXPLICITLY mention your Windows OS version** ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^

The point I was trying to make is **Don't bother**. Get an OS version that wasn't constructed using stone tools. In this regard, Linux can be included. 8-)

With those dreaded mail-in rebates you can get that here in the US, too. But these are nicely packaged in tight snap-together housings. The single sticks often get lint into the contact areas after being in a pocket all day. I've got some of those 1GB as well.

Mine came with a nylon ribbon so I can wear it round my neck. Geek accessory.

So did mine. Except that I hate wearing stuff around my neck ;-)

Well, sure but EVERYONE knows that they never let the sales people finish the rest of the day when they're fired, and they rarely fire any engineer before quitting time.

I ain't gonna wear no bling ;-)