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-Acid- · 20 December 2020, 16:04

The size problem is manufacturers sell drive capacities in decimal units so 1 gigabyte = 1000 megabytes but Windows is displaying the sizes in binary so 1 GiB = 1024 MiB. Hence 128 gigabytes as sold is roughly 119.21 GiB (gibibyte) in Windows.

20 December 2020, 16:04	#17
-Acid- Registered User Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: South Shields Posts: 812	The size problem is manufacturers sell drive capacities in decimal units so 1 gigabyte = 1000 megabytes but Windows is displaying the sizes in binary so 1 GiB = 1024 MiB. Hence 128 gigabytes as sold is roughly 119.21 GiB (gibibyte) in Windows.