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mergen3107 · 06-22-2022, 12:21 AM

Ah, yes, the old misconception of "MB vs MiB" comes in place as well. "Megabyte" (MB) is based on powers of 1000 and used for advertizing, "Mebibyte" is based on powers of 1024 used by PCs in terms of bytes.

The general formula is Actual_GiB = Advertized_GB*(1000/1024)^3 for Gigabyte scale (power of 2 for Megabyte, and power of 1 for KiloByte).

So, for example, a "512 GB" SSD advertised on a website has actually 476.84 GiB useful for computer.
32 GB becomes 29.80 GiB, and so on.

06-22-2022, 12:21 AM	#5
mergen3107 Wizard Posts: 1,065 Karma: 4234828 Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Cape Canaveral Device: Kindle Scribe	Ah, yes, the old misconception of "MB vs MiB" comes in place as well. "Megabyte" (MB) is based on powers of 1000 and used for advertizing, "Mebibyte" is based on powers of 1024 used by PCs in terms of bytes. The general formula is Actual_GiB = Advertized_GB*(1000/1024)^3 for Gigabyte scale (power of 2 for Megabyte, and power of 1 for KiloByte). So, for example, a "512 GB" SSD advertised on a website has actually 476.84 GiB useful for computer. 32 GB becomes 29.80 GiB, and so on.