USB flash recovery tools?

[Monty J. Harder]

Nothing false about it.  It's the inevitable result of using an
established term to mean something different.

The SI prefix 'M' means 10^6, not 2^20.  Memory is almost always
listed using the binary terminology, which would be written MiB
according to the most popular disambiguation scheme.  HD manufacturers
all use the SI meaning, because it allows them to advertise a larger
number of MB.  A third definition of 'MB' is that used by floppy
drives, 10^3 x 2^10, or 2000 sectors of 512 bytes.  A '1.44 MB' floppy
has 2880 sectors.

On 3/14/07, Luke-Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
> That's probably just the classic false advertising.
>
> 500,000,000 bytes (sold as "500 MB") is approximately 477 MB
> 512,000,000 bytes (sold as "512 MB", even more misleading) is approx 488 MB