I assume that the answer to this is yes, but for the sake of being thorough:
Do manufacturers still insist on expressing the capacity of SSD's in the same way they did traditional HDD's?
I.E. in Gib instead of GB?
If I wanted to figure out the actual formatted usable space on say a SDD marketed and sold as 40GB, would that calculation still be:
40 * 1,000,000,000 / 1024 ^ 3
For a rough capacity of 37.2GB before OS installation?
I'm slightly embarrassed to have to ask this, but since I've not purchase one yet and I can't recall actually seeing the exact capacity discussed in an article I just wanted to be sure so I can calculate my actual sweet spot in terms of need vs $/GB.
Intended for a single bay laptop so no room for a second HDD, though I can use networked storage to help. My current W7 64 + Essential Apps weighs in at about 24GB w/o data files.
Thanks,
Rev
Do manufacturers still insist on expressing the capacity of SSD's in the same way they did traditional HDD's?
I.E. in Gib instead of GB?
If I wanted to figure out the actual formatted usable space on say a SDD marketed and sold as 40GB, would that calculation still be:
40 * 1,000,000,000 / 1024 ^ 3
For a rough capacity of 37.2GB before OS installation?
I'm slightly embarrassed to have to ask this, but since I've not purchase one yet and I can't recall actually seeing the exact capacity discussed in an article I just wanted to be sure so I can calculate my actual sweet spot in terms of need vs $/GB.
Intended for a single bay laptop so no room for a second HDD, though I can use networked storage to help. My current W7 64 + Essential Apps weighs in at about 24GB w/o data files.
Thanks,
Rev