![]() ![]() Then there is Microsoft, which seems to use both of the above, rounds off the number and does some goofy guesswork to come up with sizes.Īnother thing to consider is that drives will have defects on them, from the manufacturer. For us humans, a kilobyte is 1,000 bytes. So, for a computer, a single kilobyte of data is made up of 1,024 bytes. ![]() The problems come in because computers count in Base 2, we humans count in Base 10, and then Microsoft happens. A small bit of that space is used when you format the drive, mostly used for the allocation table (a file showing where the parts of a file are written at, on a drive). ![]() Well, you are not actually losing any space at all, your 32GB drive has 32GB of space. Where does the remaining 4GB come into the picture? This is also true for smaller or larger flash drives, as well as internal or external disk drive. When you purchase a 32GB flash drive you get only around 28GB of storage space. ![]()
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