Okay clever clogs
but the amount you "lose" between the volume you see on the packet and what you get appears to be a bit proportional, so if it was just system storage surely that would be far less with a large chip rather than a small chip?

I'm genuinely curious, are you saying that the difference in bits between what we define as 1Gb and how many bits that would be if you started from 8 bits in 1 byte and had 1024Mb or whatever has nothing to do with the difference in perceived size?
(Bazongaloid, Mon 11 Mar 2013, 12:31, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

Yeah, you've got it!

(PsychoChomp, Mon 11 Mar 2013, 12:32, Reply)

See the other answer.
Hard disk platters were always quoted in decimal (i.e. 1000 bytes to a kB etc) to make them seem slightly bigger until consumers got a trifle miffed. Flash memory wasn't really a consumer product until fairly recently so the numbers quoted were more "honest".
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Mon 11 Mar 2013, 12:35, Reply)

Nah, you've lost me know and I've stopped being curious.
I'm going to look at some tits instead.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 11 Mar 2013, 12:38, Reply)

looking down?

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 11 Mar 2013, 13:08, Reply)