Brand new 960GB SSD only showing up as 894.25GB?

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gurrkin

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Just got a new Sandisk Ultra 2. Supposed to be 960GB, I understand it normally comes out lower - but 70GB lower? Got to be something wrong surely? The disk is unallocated. All I;'ve done it initialise the disk through windows partition manager.

Easeus partition manager also shows 894GB. Ideas?

Thanks,

Alex
 
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That is exactly what it should be showing.
Gigabytes vs Gibibytes.
Base 10 vs Base 2
Human vs computer.

Read more here:
http://wintelguy.com/gb2gib.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte

My "960GB Sandisk Ultra II"
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That is exactly what it should be showing.
Gigabytes vs Gibibytes.
Base 10 vs Base 2
Human vs computer.

Read more here:
http://wintelguy.com/gb2gib.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte

My "960GB Sandisk Ultra II"
m1yzBu4.jpg
 
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The bigger the drive, the bigger the difference.

I have a 2x 4TB and 1x 3tb pooled together (meaning shows as 1 large drive), and together my REAL space is only 10TB.

HDD/SDD Drive manufactures use gigbyte to mean billion bytes, so 960 GB = 960 billion bytes.
A real gigbyte = 1024 megabytes which is 1024 kilobytes which is 1024 bytes.
So 894GB * 1024 MB * 1024KB * 1024B = 960 billion Bytes.

 
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