07-18-2016, 10:14 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-18-2016, 10:15 AM by KPhillisJr.)
(07-07-2016, 10:40 AM)Luke Wrote: Hey
This has been already discussed on the forum - I tried finding the link for you but couldn't find it. I'm not an expert BUT it appears that some manufacturers use a GB as exactly 1,000,000,000 bytes while an actual GB has 1,073,741,824 bytes. So a 16GB case would be = 14.9 GB
[someone correct me if I am wrong]
Without getting any further into this I can say that I've had no issues with Samsung SD cards, but did encounter issues with other manufacturers.
I think the problem is with numerous companies ( including Microsoft ) blatantly failing to properly follow specifications. I can easily identify more than 3 respected sources that clearly state that 1 Gigabyte (GB) is equal to 1,000,000,000 bytes.
- January 1999 - International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) specification number 60027 (aka IEC 27 ) - Wikipedia
- National Institute of Standards and Technology - International System of Units - Prefixes for binary Multiples
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has specified this since around 2003. To be exact look at specification of IEEE 1541-2002
- International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) has defined since October 20th, 1960 the metric prefixes which Control Kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, etc. For an idea on the prefixes you can use the Metric Prefix page on wikipedia.