AndreyG Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 Hello everybody, Could you tell me what is the actual capacity in bytes of 8GB Survivor? Here is what fdisk shows: Disk: /dev/rdisk1 geometry: 966/255/63 [15532032 sectors] Signature: 0xAA55 Starting Ending #: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *1: 0B 0 1 1 - 505 12 16 [ 80 - 15531952] Win95 FAT-32 2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused 3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused 4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused So the total capacity would be 15532032 x 512 = 7,952,400,384 bytes. Is it normal or I am missing ~50Mb of memory? (I assume that in this case 1GB stands for 10^9 instead of 2^30) Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthohol Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 remember 1024 bytes is a megabyte, its marketing math. 8 gig advertised (we think 8,000,000,000) is actually 8,000,000,000/1024= 7,812,500,000 true gigabytes. hope that helps perceptions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndreyG Posted October 11, 2009 Author Share Posted October 11, 2009 Synthohol, thank you for replying, but I do know the trick. My friend who has other popular brand 16GB flash drive claims that he's only "missing" ~200Mb. So I am just curious what the real capacity is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted October 12, 2009 Corsair Employee Share Posted October 12, 2009 The actual size can vary depending a lot of variables but usually are about the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaim Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 My 8GB Flash Voyager has a actual size of 7.39GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted October 13, 2009 Corsair Employee Share Posted October 13, 2009 That looks to be right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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