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Originally Posted by Cavi
They are I think. I mean the comparable sized SSDs are all around the same price, with the Micro Center one (made by A-DATA) has 4GB more space.
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Originally Posted by Cavi
That's no different from any other HDD/SDD though...
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ding ding ding... INCORRECT
They have marketed it by saying how much NAND Flash it contains, not the usable space, like most other SSD products, it's exactly the same as other Sandforce products, with 60GB (55.9GiB) usable.
My guess is it's a re-branded A-Data which is where I first saw this weird "incorrect" labeling.
In
GiB (Binary Gigabytes or "Gibibytes") (1,073,741,824 bytes)
Amount of NAND Flash: 64 GiB
Amount of "spare area": 8.08 GiB
Amount of usable space: 55.92 GiB
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GB (Decimal Gigabytes) (1,000,000,000 bytes)
Amount of NAND Flash: 68.7 GB
Amount of "spare area": 8.7 GB
Amount of usable space: 60 GB
So you can see AData (and Micro Center) have advertised the NAND Flash amount in GiB, while most manufacturers are advertising the usable space in GB
Confusing still is that some SSDs (C300 and some Indilinx) have less spare area and so have 64 GB (59.6 GiB) of usable space, but all of the ~60GB drives have 64GiB of actual NAND.
Oops forgot to mention the worst part, Windows displays amounts of data in Gibibytes, but labels them with GB, causing no end of confusing amongst HDD buyers... "Why is my 1000 GB drive 931 GiB"
