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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Less and less space for reasons other than storing stuff on it?
You will always see a bit less space than the stated size of the drive, because the stated size is the raw size, but formatting takes a bit off the top.
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Also, a lot of people (even software developers) don't understand the difference between GB (Gigabyte, base 10) and GiB (Gibibyte, base 2) and when they see that their 16 GB USB drive only has 14.9 GiB (not counting formatting overhead) they get upset saying that the drive doesn't have the full capacity. It doesn't help that many (most) programs show the units in the base 10 representation while showing the base 2 value. Drives are always (almost always?) sold as their base 10 capacity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte