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[–] ElPussyKangaroo@lemdro.id 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow. Samsung Innovation is truly big!

[–] ijeff@lemdro.id 17 points 1 year ago

But how big in mebibytes?

[–] Steve 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those are different systems, though, with gigabytes measured in powers of 1,024 and gibibytes in powers of 1,000.

They got those backwards! The whole concept hinges on this, and they flipped the values! Sometimes I love tech writers.

[–] ijeff@lemdro.id 10 points 1 year ago

Backward indeed! I've always found the Wikipedia chart helpful.

[–] ipha@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Wait, they're just lying in a different place now.

[–] somegadgetguy@lemdro.id 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 5 months ago)
[–] LaughingFox@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Iook I'm not a tech person, I always thought 1 gig was 1024 megabytes?

What is a GiB? I've seen it but always wondered.

[–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] Alonely0@mastodon.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@skullgiver @LaughingFox It's not programmer laziness at all, RAM modules' size has to be of a power of 2 on most platforms because of various assumptions the CPU makes in memory alignment and memory bulk reads for performance reasons. Processors don't interact directly with the flash dies, so it's fine for them to be of the size they feel like provided the controller knows what it's doing.

[–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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