[EXPIRED} Daily Offer 14GB USB Flash Drive - $13.65 + $1.95 postage

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  cwongtech on 18/12/2010 - 14:38

  Expired..?
  http://dailyoffer.com.au/past_offers.php

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  McMerc on 18/12/2010 - 14:39

  +1

  Expired a couple of minutes ago…..

  Don't get the 14GB thing……….

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  morpheu on 18/12/2010 - 14:41

  yeah it's strange, maybe they take 16gb faulty memory chips and disable some of it to make a 14gb drive? like they do with some graphics chips

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  dmc900 on 18/12/2010 - 14:43

  +1

  My 16GB only has 14.9GB writable and is classified as a 16GB & I don't think the manufacturer wants to call it a 14.9GB Flash Disk.

  But it does seem odd that it's only got 13.7GB writable. I wouldn't trust these flash disks they'll probably break down in a couple of months and then you'll lose all your data.

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    Cluster on 18/12/2010 - 15:33

    +2

    For decades hard drive manufacturers and now other forms of storage have used base 10 for their storage specifications where as your computer uses base 2. 1000 bytes instead of 1024. That difference coupled with the overhead of formatting the drive for use results in losing about 9% of the supposedly usable drive space.

    Technically, the sneaky drive makers are right as "kilo" means 1000 not 1024. That's where kibibytes, mebibytes, gibibytes, etc come in. I refuse to use that terminology, IEEE and IEC standards be damned :-)

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      ptfff on 18/12/2010 - 16:39

      you'll find that they actually got sued for this and lost.

      http://www.zdnet.com/blog/ou/seagate-settles-hard-drive-laws…
      http://gizmodo.com/183980/western-digital-settles-hard-drive…

      So you'll find that drives often have two sizes labelled on them.

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      AlexF on 18/12/2010 - 19:08

      RAM manufactures can save some money too by using ISO values.
      4GB sticks only need to have 4,000,000,000 bytes not 4,294,967,296.
      I want % of those $ saved in silicon and metal.

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        Daabido on 18/12/2010 - 20:33

        +2

        No way in the world does any RAM manufacturer count in anything but base 2.