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

[maestro]

[Quoting Aaron...]
>>Although I didn't see any 128 GB -or- 128 GiB SSDs listed at the Central
>>Computer Sales Promos > Weekly Special webpage at reference


i can confirm bobbie's info and am looking at mine right now which is 128
which is not 128.
128 what???
i'm not telling :-O~


pretty good price though hoping it works 'properly' but i 'did' have to ask
three different people
about it's reverse compatibility before i found one who knew because the
first two had no idea what that means
which at central computer is rather SCARY...


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On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 10:55 AM aaronco36 <aaronco36 at sdf.org> wrote:

>
> 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
>
> ===============================================
> References
> ===============================================
> [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
> ===============================================
>
>
> aaronco36 at sdf.org
>
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