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bitchface-hatchling t1_iy8w4tt wrote

Reply to comment by thejml2000 in Eli5 Why there arent like 20gb USBs instead each usb has twice as much as the previous(8gb,16gb,32gb,64gb,128gb by nightmarebg69

This is correct I feel.

However, colloquially, GB is expanded to Gigabytes and hence would mean 1024 Kilobytes. There is also a difference between how the manufacturers build storage and how it is sold. The manufacturers still build storage in multiples of 1000s. So a 1 GB drive would have 1000 MBs, each of which would have 1000 KBs, each of which would have 1000 bytes. But the calculated capacity is then based on binary notations; (110001000*1000)/1024/1024/1024. You would have noticed this. A 1 GB storage drive only comes with ~953 MB of storage.

At least this is what I remember from my CS class.

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