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You know, I went back to the video that LTT made from the unboxing video of when they switched to RED cameras and I gotta say......

 

 

 

 

 

For all the shit that people gave Apple for making a stand that costs $1000........RED charges $950 for a camera handle. And $2,500 for 480GB of mSATA SSD while marketing it as 512GB. Just saying. 

  1. DrMacintosh

    DrMacintosh

    No, physically they are 480GB. Check the drive label. Idc what software says the capacity is. 

  2. DrMacintosh

    DrMacintosh

    Incorrect. Watch any teardown of a Red mini mag. The drives are all off the shelf mSATA drives with no special firmware or file structure. The drives are as big as they are printed on the drives. In no way are they 512GB in size. 

  3. ARikozuM

    ARikozuM

    Neither should have been a realization. Apple could have at least added electrical auto-adjustments. 

  4. ARikozuM

    ARikozuM

    @James Evens That should go into the false advertisement bucket. If it isn't available to the user, it isn't counted. Same needs to happen with cars with BHP (braking horsepower). It would serve the consumer better to know their buying a 220HP car with only 140BHP (you're paying for a car that loses 30% of its power at some point). 

  5. DrMacintosh

    DrMacintosh

    It’s still false advertising. Over provisioning isn’t capacity that the user gets. It’s a lie. 

  6. ARikozuM

    ARikozuM

    And 512GB drives are overprovisioned as well. Saying that a 512GB is there, but only 480GB is usable is false advertising. If you're blocking it for performance and endurance, you should only be selling it as what the end user can physically use. 

  7. DrMacintosh

    DrMacintosh

    Even if that were true, which I don't believe it is, everyone else does not charge $2.5k for a shitty mSATA drive...

  8. Blademaster91

    Blademaster91

    Not sure how that car analogy works, unless the consumer is a car enthusiast they wouldn't care and most aren't buying a car for horsepower numbers, which most of the time aren't exact anyway. There is also formatting ofc, is it false advertising as mechanical HDD's are sold the same way?

  9. ARikozuM

    ARikozuM

    The way that an OS reports size is one thing, 2x vs 10x, but the overprovisioned section is not accounted for (1000 gigabytes is 931 gibibytes), but overprovisioning is not accounted for at all. 

  10. ARikozuM

    ARikozuM

    @blade I'm trying to make an example of why saying a larger number is misleading when you only get to use a certain amount of it. 

  11. Blademaster91

    Blademaster91

    @ARikozuM it is misleading as 7% of the SSD can't be used, companies like Samsung and Crucial recommend reserving another 10% for endurance, really lame when a 256GB SSD ends up as 208GB after overprovisioning and reserved space.

    I wouldn't mind if companies sold it as a 931GB SSD instead, or add extra storage chips only for overprovisioning.

  12. ARikozuM

    ARikozuM

    They sell a 1TB drive that is only 1000 Gigabytes (not 1024 gibibytes). That's why Windows reports 931 Gibibytes. It's a bit misleading as our systems don't function on powers of 10. 

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