posted on September 15, 2004 08:51:22 PM
I am trying to figure out how much image storage space I am using because of the new Vendio Image pricing - but I am a little rusty in my measurement math! 1,000 MB=1.0 GB??? I am using 1,100 MB - so that is 1.1 GB?? Thanks
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posted on September 15, 2004 08:55:27 PM
You are correct. 1000 mb = 1 gb. I know, because I opened my hard drive and counted every single one of those critters.
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posted on September 15, 2004 09:25:20 PM
I wondered the answer to that question for a long time. I took care of getting my image storage down by deleting my vendio store,that got rid of me needing a ton of the pictures I had stored. I will keep my E-Bay store and part of the imagines I need for it I will store on floppies.
posted on September 15, 2004 11:30:53 PM
Hi there,
Break out the calculators! I had to That's a really good question and I'm sure lots of others out there have the same so we created an FAQ just to answer it. Click here to read the FAQ.
BTW, you were close: 1 GB = 1,024 MB. Don't ask why
posted on September 16, 2004 12:03:30 AM
WHY!??! lol Thanks Chuck. And here I thought metric measurements were supposed to make more sense!
PS: you made a mistake in the FAQ's...10 GB = 10,240 MB not 10,024..I THINK (it's 2 am here so I could be wrong)
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[ edited by neglus on Sep 16, 2004 12:05 AM ]
posted on September 16, 2004 11:33:42 PM
Chuck,
I was thinking that the information could be more useful if it were broken down further in to a unit of measurement that is more readily comprehended by senior citizens who are getting into computers for the first time. eg. 1 Gb = 1024 mb = 7.235 furlongs per fortnight.
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posted on September 16, 2004 11:36:10 PM
Gosh Ralphie! And I thought we knew the answer! Turns out to be more complicated that we thought
"Megabytes, Gigabytes, Terabytes… What Are They?"
These terms are usually used in the world of computing to describe disk space, or data storage space, and system memory. For instance, just a few years ago we were describing hard drive space using the term Megabytes. Today it is not uncommon to hear the term Gigabytes to describe a hard drive. In the not so distant future, Terabyte will be a common term. But what are they? This is where it turns into a nightmare because there are at least three accepted definitions of each term.
According to the IBM Dictionary of computing, when used to describe disk storage capacity, a megabyte is 1,000,000 bytes in decimal notation. According to the Microsoft Press Computer Dictionary, a megabyte means either 1,000,000 bytes or 1,048,576 bytes. According to Eric S. Raymond in The New Hacker's Dictionary, a megabyte is always 1,048,576 bytes on the argument that bytes should naturally be computed in powers of two. So which definition do most people conform to?
When referring to a megabyte for disk storage, the hard drive manufacturers use the standard that a megabyte is 1,000,000 bytes. This means that when you buy an 80 Gigabyte Hard drive you will get a total of 80,000,000,000 bytes of available storage. This is where it gets confusing because Windows uses the 1,048,576 byte rule so when you look at the Windows drive properties an 80 Gigabyte drive will report a capacity of 74.56 Gigabytes. Anybody confused yet? With three accepted definitions, there will always be some confusion so I will try to simplify the definitions a little.
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posted on September 18, 2004 05:45:45 PM
Reminds me of the congressman who said that the value of pi was too complicated for America's children to remember, and that Congress should pass a law making it 3.
Getting circles to conform to the law proved to be problematic.
posted on September 19, 2004 05:34:35 AM
Tom,
8 bits to a byter ??
It is now more like 32 bits to a byte.
take square root of 1024=32
32 x 32 = 1024
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posted on September 19, 2004 05:10:15 PM
Sorry, stopwhining, it is still 8 bits to a byte. The number of bits that CPUs use for addressing might have gone to 32 (and 64 in newer processors), but there are still 8 bits to a byte.
Imagine how wasteful it would be to store a symbol or character (e.g., "A", "$" using 32 bits.
Different computers have different WORD lengths (i.e., they usually have bit, byte, word, longword, etc.), different instruction lengths, etc., but I don't know of any that use anything but 8 bits to a byte.
Just what 32 x 32 = 1024 is intended to signify, I'm not sure. 1024 is used mostly because it is close to 1000; so people who aren't into binary "understand" it. The real "interesting" decimal numbers in computing are 256 (number of possible values in a byte)), 65536 (number of possible values in a word (two bytes)), 4,294,967,296 (number of possible values in a longword (4 bytes)), etc. So, if you're concerned with signed integers, you can store values between -32767 and +32768 in a word, etc.
Anyway, I have a great auction on a banjo to attend to.
posted on September 19, 2004 06:45:40 PM
boy,it is good to know 8 bits to a byte still rule!
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[ edited by stopwhining on Sep 19, 2004 06:46 PM ]
That's a really good question and I'm sure lots of others out there have the same so we created an FAQ just to answer it. 
using 32 bits.