Discover why hard disks and flash drives do not display their full capacity and whether manufacturers are genuinely deceiving you.
Many individuals, upon purchasing an external hard drive or USB flash drive of a certain capacity, are to find that a significant portion of the memory appears to be missing once connected to a computer. For instance, a drive advertised as 400 gigabytes might show only 365 gigabytes. This discrepancy leads them to believe they have been deceived by the manufacturers. I decided to share this post to clarify these misconceptions and address whether I have truly been scammed.
In fact, the hard drive manufacturers did not deceive you, and the space you got is in the reality that you bought, and the secret behind this lies in something intuitive and many of us know it, which is the unit of measurement, as the amount of information stored on the computer or on an external hard drive or USB flash drive is measured in a unit called "Octet," which is equivalent to "Byte." This unit, in turn, is divided into 8 bits." Which simplifies the following
After we understand the unit of measurement, let's get to know the problem, where the problem lies in the fact that the Windows operating system actually uses other multiples (in the binary counting system), and this is an explanation of the matter:
But the counting system used by the Windows system does not have a suitable name like other units, where only the letter i is added in the middle; for example, Go becomes Gio, and so on, which causes confusion among users, and next time it is enough for you to divide any storage you want by 1.07374 to find the real capacity that the Windows operating system will show, and the larger the hard disk space, the more you notice the difference.