Your "512GB" SD card doesn't actually store 512GiB of data. Its a long standing trick where storage manufacturers use a decimal 1000 bytes = 1 kilobyte but your OS will use 1024 bytes = 1 kilobyte.As soon as I got it I imaged The SD card 512GB in case the card died. The image is 477GB. Well just a couple of months later the card did die so I tried putting that image onto a new sandisk Extreme 512GB card but etcher threw up an error apparently the card is 846MB too small and it would not write. I tried a second Sandisk Extreme 512 GB card and get the exact same error (at least they are consistent) If the image is only 477GB then there is enough space on the card for everything I need even if the sandisk card is less than a gig smaller.
"512GB" SD = 512 x 1000 x 1000 x 1000 = 512,000,000,000 bytes = 476.8GiB
Statistics: Posted by trejan — Wed Nov 27, 2024 3:09 pm