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Edited by Phant0m`` at 2019-12-19 23:42
Beelink is correct, to hard disk manufacturers one KB is 1000 bytes, one MB is 1000 KB, and one GB is 1000 MB. In your case, this Beelink product has 32GB storage, it contains 32 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 = 32,000,000,000 bytes of space. The hard disk manufacturer thus advertises the disk as a 32 GB hard disk.
However, manufacturers of RAM don't sell it in even groups of 1000 – they use groups of 1024. When you're buying memory, a KB is 1024 bytes, a MB is 1024 KB, and a GB is 1024 MB. Now reverse it from 32,000,000,000 bytes:
32,000,000,000 / (1024 * 1024 * 1024) = 29 GB
There's also some overhead required when Windows formats your drive, for the file system and boot data and hidden recovery partitions can account for difference. End results Windows will show 28 GB Capacity.
Windows has always calculated hard drives as powers of 1024 while hard drive manufacturers use powers of 1000.
You will observe the same thing if you look at external HDDs and USB Flash drives..
Regards,
Phant0m`` :) |
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