my pc indicates only 29gb total storage on the 32gb flashdrive??
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Well, I suggest using this as a search term on a search website: "why do flash drives have less space than advertised." I won't pretend to know how to answer that fully, but researching more should explain it. Plus the flash drive comes with a program on it, if I remember correctly, which takes up space - I always delete any programs that come with my drives since copying-and-pasting does the same thing for my purposes.It's not a product ripoff though, at least I don't see it as that at all. It's just the nature of flash drives.
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Manufactures report the number of bits usable by their drives assuming that a kilobyte is 1000 bits (decimal thinking), while Windows reports the number of bits assuming a kilobyte is 1024 bits (binary thinking). Google "(1000^3 * 32 * 8) / (1024^3 * 8)" to get the amount of space in GiB, which is how much usable space you have as reported in the Windows operating system. Windows should report 29.8 GB usable on a freshly formatted drive. This has *nothing* to do with Windows 8 certification.
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There is a difference between how drive manufacturers specify 32GB and how Windows specifies GB. Every storage device will specify more GB and Windows will always say less due to these differences. Not going to detail them out, as the math makes my head hurt. :P
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I put my media on micro sd cards which are pretty crazy cheap now. The unaccounted for space is in system partitions.
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So far I have 57+/- gb left so I can't answer if it will hold more without errors. I did observe that loading files into the device was slow however retrieving them was quick enough. I looked over some of the files I have to see if there was any deterioration & (for what little I have put in it) so far so good! I tend to keep several flash drives with the same info because I don't trust any device completely! Sorry I didn't have a better answer for you!
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Mine is not working properly. when I save files over 128GB. The files disappear and I have only empty folders even though the drive shows that the space is being used. It is a waste of money.
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On an Acer W500 running Windows 8.1 I'm showing 223GB. My Acer originally came with 32GB and I was down to 5GB free before I upgraded the MyDigitalSSD 256GB
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Was it Sold DIRECTLY from and/or "fulfilled by Amazon"? If not, there is a chance you have received a counterfeit which is actually a small capacity flash drive with falsified firmware that makes it report a much higher than true capacity. This has been an ongoing problem with many flash drives over the past few years.Try filling the drive with much smaller files and see how much it will hold before reporting a problem to the user, and whether the first and last files written can be successfully read later to determine if the actual capacity is as specified.
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The device comes with a FAT32 partition, which is quite limited but very compatible.I repartitioned my USB Flash drive to Mac OS Extended (Journaled), and so files on it can be as large as the device.
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The total storage space may not be exactly 64gb, but there are no additional programs on the USB. Besides, a quick format will get rid of anything on there.
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When selected in "My Computer" it only shows 7.96 GB free. Apparently you'll need to utilize some sort of file compression or leave something out.
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The one I bought said 64GB and that's exactly what I've got. If you got one with a lesser capacity than advertised, you should send it back.
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When I check properties, it says capacity 104GB, as for me im using 62.5GB including windows at the moment.I bought 64GB memory card to have extra space.
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I got total 223.57GB shows on windows 7 disk manager. For reference, my Samsung MZ-7TD250BW 840 bought 2 years back shows 232.88GB.
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My Patriot 8GB USB3 drive shows as 7.92GB which is 1% less than the stated capacity. The drive is formatted as Mac OS Extended. I don't know what the Windows number might be.
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Storage should be in the specs. Best to just check them out. Mine was 256gb solid state drive.
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http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/memory-storage/MZ-7TD500BWI dont know where you got your info from...this is from the Samsung site for the same drive and it says 500...so yea, its 500
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That sounds about right. After I installed my 64gb and OS I had 55gb free. If everything is working okay than you are good.
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We will need a little more information like what are you inserting this into? Also does the system board that you are using this on expand to 32GB? Maybe 16 is its max.