It’s not that, the amount in GB is less than 256! Comparing GiB to GiB is easier on Linux since it doesn’t do the Windows thing and obfuscate the unit to all be GB. I just got the shirt end of the stick in terms of silicon (this was a drive by Asus, sooooo)
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truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 2 days agoThis is because for the OS 1 GB=1024 MB, but for storage 1 GB = 1000 MB.
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Uli@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
To be fair, 256! is about 8.5781777534 × 10⁵⁰⁶. Lots of numbers are less than that.
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
I think it’s pretty common for less reputable storage manufactures to have a drive which reports to be a certain size, but trying to read data back from some sectors doesn’t work. There is this windows tool to check the drive: www.grc.com/validrive.htm
sudo@programming.dev 2 days ago
1GiB = 1024MiB and 1GB = 1000MB. OP does seem to get those confused.