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by veonik 1216 days ago
It's a 16GB module in the "1GB is 1000MB" sense that drive manufacturers follow-- 31266816 blocks at 512 bytes each is 16008609792.
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It literally says 2^34.
Sure, not saying there isn't any discrepancy-- just that the discrepancy is in the measuring methods. I was showing that there _is_ a way to produce a 16GB number (albeit in terms of GB, not GiB) given the number of blocks physically available, that's all.