Pen drive showing 14.9 GB only
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jai
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Nov 20, 2015 at 06:03 AM
KY_WD Posts 2053 Registration date Thursday October 23, 2014 Status Member Last seen February 28, 2017 - Dec 1, 2015 at 02:42 AM
KY_WD Posts 2053 Registration date Thursday October 23, 2014 Status Member Last seen February 28, 2017 - Dec 1, 2015 at 02:42 AM
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KY_WD
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Nov 20, 2015 at 10:15 AM
Nov 20, 2015 at 10:15 AM
Hello jai,
There is no problem with your pendrive. It's just how the PC and pendrive populate the bytes information.
The manufacturers of storage devices set the 1000 bytes = 1K, so like normal number conventions 16GB = 16000000000 bytes.
On the other hand, PC calculates 1KB as 1024 Bytes, therefore 1GB = 1024MB. If you make the calculations 16 GB read by 1024 system makes 16000000000 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 gives you roughly around 14.9GB
Hope that I helped.
There is no problem with your pendrive. It's just how the PC and pendrive populate the bytes information.
The manufacturers of storage devices set the 1000 bytes = 1K, so like normal number conventions 16GB = 16000000000 bytes.
On the other hand, PC calculates 1KB as 1024 Bytes, therefore 1GB = 1024MB. If you make the calculations 16 GB read by 1024 system makes 16000000000 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 gives you roughly around 14.9GB
Hope that I helped.
Nov 20, 2015 at 10:19 AM
Nov 20, 2015 at 04:33 PM
Dec 1, 2015 at 02:42 AM