Is Switch 2's 256gb on par or worse than PS5's 825 launch model?

[SvennoJ]

Conina said:

SvennoJ said:

Yet for computers it was

1KB = 2^10 bytes
1MB = 2^10 KB or 2^20 bytes
1GB = 2^10 MB or 2^30 bytes
1TB =  2^10 GB or 2^40 bytes

Computers are base 2, not base 10.

It all went wrong with the internet though, as well as marketing for HDDs. Those are base 10 instead of base 2.

They shouldn't have used base-10-prefixes (kilo, mega, giga, tera, peta, exa...) for base 2 units in the first place.

It all went wrong when lazy programmers thought, 1024 is "close enough" to 1000.

It's actually base 16 for anything to do with file / memory addressing

1 KiB = 1,024 bytes = 0x400 (4 * 16^2)
1 MiB = 1,048,576 bytes = 0x80000 (8 * 16^4)
1 GiB = 1,073,741,824 bytes = 0x40000000 (4 * 16^7)
1 TiB = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes = 0x10000000000 (1 * 16^10)

And in computer turns you have

Byte/Char 1 byte (0-15)
Short 2 bytes (0-255)
Int/Long 4 bytes (0-65,535) = 64 KB
Long Long/Double 8 bytes (0-4,294,967,296) = 4GB
Long Double 16 bytes (0-18,446,744,073,709,551,616) = 16 EB (Exa Bytes) or 16,384 PB (Peta Bytes)

Long Doubles are mostly used for floating point and hence computers didn't like drives over 4 GB at first, Long Long being the max to address file locations.

Lesson, don't let computer nerds make up names ;)

Yeah it's all just picking the numbers 'close enough' to the decimal system.