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Tough Why disks & pen drives have less area than the promised space ?

Ultra-modern i'm going to share with you guys why the pen-drives and reminiscence card or any garage have much less space than it is promised storage size.

Pen drives, difficult disks come beneath the category of usb flash pressure. Usb flash pressure is also referred to as usb drive or usb stick. It is a records garage device with an incorporated usb interface which includes flash reminiscence. Currently, pen drives and outside tough disks were part of our lifestyles just like smartphones. However have you ever ever checked that the pen drives storage capability is unique to that of the promised area by means of the manufacturer?



Yes, the storage space differs for sure. For example, let us take a 8 GB pen drive and after plugging it to your computer, you can see that only 7.46 GB space is available.

Then where is the rest of 0.54 GB ? Scratching your head and cursing the manufacturer? Properly, there may be a trick used by the producer here. Let me  explain it certainly.

A simple of math worried in this. Generally, every one of us is aware of that computer systems work using number 2 as the base. According to this the reminiscence control can be :

1 KiloByte (KB) = 1024 Bytes

1 Megabyte (MB) = 1024 Kilobytes (KB)

1 Gigabyte (GB) = 1024 Megabytes (MB)

8 GB = 1024 * 8 = 8192 MB

But pen drive and hard disks manufacturers consider it as base 10. i.e

1 KiloByte (KB) = 1000 Bytes

1 Megabyte (MB) = 1000 Kilobytes (KB)

1 Gigabyte (GB) = 1000 Megabytes (MB)

8 GB = 1000 * 8 = 8000 MB ( approximately equal to 7.81 GB)
and the rest of the memory (approximately 0.35GB ) is reserved for data sector and system files for better performance.

As the device memory capacity increases, we lose more amount of space. The table below shows some shocking figures.


Manufacturers are actually not cheating anyone in this whole drama. In fact, they mention this on the box of hard disks and pen drives. Take a close look at your hard disk boxes.


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