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

[aaronco36]

Tony Godshall <togo at of.net> wrote at [01]:

> gigibytes is not a thing.  gigabytes and gibibytes are the terms.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte
>
> Bi for binary.  kibi, mebi, gibi, tebi...  reminds you that we are
> being specific about 2^, not 10^

That's right; it is GiBibytes instead of GiGibytes for GiB (as I 
incorrectly wrote). 
Au revoir Madame/Mademoiselle Gigi and bienvenue Monsieur Gibi! <G>

A few other corrections I've already caught (so far) from [02] are:
- Bobbie S's original posting of [03] mentions discounted 128 GB _USB 
flash drives_ instead of 128 GB or 120 GB _SSDs_. I think that maestro 
could perhaps have made a similar error in the posting at [04] (?)
- The previous being the case, those discounted 128 Gigabyte USB flash 
drives _are_ really approximately 119.209289551 Gibibytes just as Michael 
P wrote in [05], and there seem to be plenty of these nicely discounted 
USB flash drives availble at Central Computer's various Bay Area locations 
[06].
- Instead of the automatic "we can see from" of the various references to 
the GB-to-GiB size-conversions at [07], you would actually have to enter a 
value into the Gigabyte search field of that webpage for the proper 
conversion to show up. That might not have been so obvious from what I 
previously wrote in [02]...

> In terms of possible "marketing tactics" size descriptions,
> we can see from ((now [07])) that the three remaining
> WDS120G2G0B SSDs listed at ((now [08])) for the SF store are
> really a lower-appearing 111.75 *Gibibytes(GiB) in size and
> the eleven remaining WDS240G2G0A SSDs listed at ((now [09]))
> for the same store are really a lower-appearing 223.51
> *Gibibytes(GiB) in size.

*Appropriately corrected here from GigIbytes to GiBibytes.


Hope that those attending tonight's BALUG meeting [10] didn't and will not 
have any major weather-related difficulties either arriving at Henry's 
Hunan Restaurant or getting back to their final destinations for the night 
afterwards :-)

-A


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References
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[01]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2019q1/013728.html
[02]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2019q1/013726.html
[03]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2019q1/013721.html
[04]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2019q1/013729.html
[05]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2019q1/013724.html
[06]https://www.centralcomputer.com/central-computer-128gb-usb3-0-flash-drive-swivel.html
[07]https://www.gbmb.org/gb-to-gib
[08]https://www.centralcomputer.com/western-digital-green-wds120g2g0b-120gb-ssd-m-2-2280-sataiii-545-mb-s-maximum-read-transfer-rate.html
[09]https://www.centralcomputer.com/western-digital-green-wds240g2g0a-240gb-ssd-2-5in-sataiii.html
[10]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2019q1/013718.html
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