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Question for Samsung

(Topic created on: 02-18-2021 01:40 AM)
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Q7
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Galaxy A
I have always wondered why is my internal 128gb storage is shown as 128gb on my Galaxy smartphone yet the Samsung EVO plus MicroSD card 256gb is shown as 239gb?

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Samsung file manager

To me, there seems to be only one possible answer.

They are making the internal storage at the hardware level as 1024kb = 1mb and the MicroSD cards as 1000kb = 1 mb. And system software counting 1024kb as 1mb so the MicroSD card comes up short on storage.

Or, is there anything else?
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techki
Active Level 7
Galaxy A
system software counting 1024kb but in phone it counting 1000kb
CyberPunk23
Active Level 4
Galaxy A
We can only think of that. Its the way the data conversion is done for external storage. Manufactures calculate this as 256*1000*1000*1000 bytes which is roughly around 239 GB.
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Q7
Active Level 7
Galaxy A
I know. Windows does that too. But they are consistent across all hardware.
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