[sf-lug] Drive sizes/capacities: Re: Want a large Flash Drive or a good sized SSD?

[aaronco36]

Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com> wrote at [1]:

> Well the drives of course are not quite as large as labeled
> the 128 GiB USB Flash Drive comes in at 117.x Gigabytes but
> the price is right.
>  I bet the 128 and 240 GiB drives come in below the labeled
> size but the prices are good.

FWIW, at least according to reference [2], there is a fairly _clear_ 
difference between GigAbytes (GB) and GigIbytes (GiB), as IMHO Michael P 
nicely expanded upon in reference [3].

Although I didn't see any 128 GB -or- 128 GiB SSDs listed at the Central 
Computer Sales Promos > Weekly Special webpage at reference [4], I _did_ 
see a 120 GB SSD weekly special on sale for $22.95 (see reference [5].)

In terms of possible "marketing tactics" size descriptions, we can see 
from [2] that the three remaining WDS120G2G0B SSDs listed at [5] for the 
SF store are really a lower-appearing 111.75 GigIbytes(GiB) in size and 
the eleven remaining WDS240G2G0A SSDs listed at [6] for the same store are 
really a lower-appearing 223.51 GigIbytes(GiB) in size.

-A

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References
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[1]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2019q1/013721.html
[2]https://www.gbmb.org/gb-to-gib
[3]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2019q1/013724.html
[4]https://www.centralcomputer.com/deals/sales-promos/weekly-special.html
[5]https://www.centralcomputer.com/western-digital-green-wds120g2g0b-120gb-ssd-m-2-2280-sataiii-545-mb-s-maximum-read-transfer-rate.html
[6]https://www.centralcomputer.com/western-digital-green-wds240g2g0a-240gb-ssd-2-5in-sataiii.html
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