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SanDisk 2 GB Memory Stick Info

Posted Aug 20, 2005 at 7:03PM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: Accessories, Featured Articles Tags: psp accessories, psp gift ideas, Sandisk
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With recent hype of the U.S. shipment of 2GB SanDisk Memory Stick PRO Duo?s across various websites we thought we?d give you a little roundup so that you can compare possible price vs. capacity, and give a little technical info on memory sticks.

With the high cost of 1GB sticks, it is hard to believe recent reports on pricing of the 2 GB sticks, but with quite a few outlets claiming a sub-$200 price tag (although very varying prices), one must assume that the price may be lower than expected.

Some users might wonder why sticks are advertised at a certain capacity actually store a significantly smaller amount of data. This is simply because manufacturing companies consider a gigabyte as 1000 megabytes of data, while everyone else abides by the more accurate mathematical 1024 megabytes of data. This can account for a significantly lower amount of storage than expected, especially in larger sized memorysticks. Many of you might find [this chart] interesting and helpful.

And a bit of techy info for those interested.: When recording data to a Memory Stick media using a compatible device, a folder is automatically created in accordance with the data type and format. That's why various types of digital content can be stored on a single media, without the user having to pay attention to file format or folder structure.
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As Memory Stick applications expand to a wider variety of areas, automatically recordable data categories are also increasing. They are recorded so as not to affect the data already stored on the media. Comment below.



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# Guest 2005-08-20 20:48
A megabyte is not 1000bytes no matter what counting scheme you use.

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# Guest 2005-08-20 20:50
1000bytes lol.

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# Guest 2005-08-20 20:54
Hey, Hey!!!

This is getting out of hand!!!

Can someone please delete these comments!

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# Guest 2005-08-20 20:55
Now Theres Sumthing To ShopLift ... : ) .. but i might have to take out the old people in front of walmart first

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# Guest 2005-08-20 20:57
I've reported Not Anonymous 12:50 at the forums, that stuff is just wrong. Jokes are one thing, but that's just wrong!

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# Guest 2005-08-20 21:01
When are the 3 gig sticks coming out?

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# Guest 2005-08-20 21:03
yea thats getting bad pedophile comment for a sandisk 2 giga board ...lol wtf is thats kind of people Slavemedia you did good to report it they will ban theyr IP forever !

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# Guest 2005-08-20 21:05
This is simply because manufacturing companies consider a kilobyte as 1000 kilobytes of data
i think you made a typo.It's a *gig* as 1000 megs of data.

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# Guest 2005-08-20 21:07
Anonymous @ 1:05: Yes it was a typo, fixed. Thanks =)

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# Guest 2005-08-20 21:07
These anonymous posts are getting way out of hand.

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# Guest 2005-08-20 22:47
Sandisk and Sony have a co-patent on the memory stick pro duo technology. Considering Sony's sticks are always priced almost twice as high as Sandisk's ($400 bucks for a stick that Sandisk is selling at $200 for a *profit*? freaking cheapskates), I tend to think that Sony and Sandisk have an agreement of sorts. Perhaps Sony is allowed to release the technology first horrifically overpriced, thus allowing them to make tons of profit from early adopters. Then Sandisk is allowed to release their version at a much more consumer-friendly price, allowing them to reap similar profits all the while fools who think the Sony brandname is worth something extra continue buying Sony's overpriced sticks. Ah well...at this rate we might have a 2 GB memory stick priced under $100 bucks in a year or so...which would be sweet.

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# Guest 2005-08-20 23:20
This is not why you can store less than the advertised amount. It is because of the security features on the Pro Duo memory sticks. I discussed this with a Sony rep not too long ago.

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# Guest 2005-08-21 00:36
When are the 3 gig sticks coming out?

Memory sticks are doubled every time they are released. So the next stick will be 4gb

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# Guest 2005-08-21 01:39
Read the box. It states that for the sake of reporting, 1 gigabyte = 1 million bytes. Thus why we see them as 949 megs. (Based on the actual multiplier of 1024)

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# Guest 2005-08-21 04:17
This confusion always arises with hard drives too. For the uninformed masses out there... a little while back a decision was made to change the meaning of the terms "megabyte", "gigabyte", etc... Traditionally, in the PC world, "megabyte" means 2^20 bytes because PCs are binary based. BUT "mega" actually means "one million" in the standard metric system. This has resulted in confusion with hard drive and other storage manufacturers deciding to use the actual traditional scientific meanings of prefixes like "mega" and "giga" since it makes their drives appear larger with the number they put on the box than your PC will actually see them since it is using the binary scale.

Anyway, new terms were created for the traditional PC binary scale. A "megabyte" is more accurately called a "mebibyte" and a "gigabyte" is actually a "gibibyte". That is why prgrams like BitTornado use "MiB" for total upload/download. MiB = mebibyte. But, alas, the new terms sound pretty stupid so they have never managed to actually take off and be accepted so the confusion continutes with the traditional terms.

If anyone doubts this information just Google up kibibyte, mebibyte, or gibibyte.

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# Guest 2005-08-21 07:05
When are the 3 gig sticks coming out?...
Answer....
NEVER

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# Guest 2005-08-21 07:23
this is extreamly old news this site has started to go down hill fast

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# Guest 2005-08-21 09:38
then go to another ****in site and shut up.

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# Guest 2005-08-21 12:01
I waited for 2 months for a 1 gig memory stick pro duo from sparco, then gave up, cancelled my order, ordered from amazon, and it came within the week.

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