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Memory shortage on micro SD cards!

derrick · 2012-01-07 18:45:48

Can someone please explain why memory capacity on SD cards is always short of stated? Following is via My Computer, then properties of cards;- Kingston 16GB micro SD card fully formatted; Used space 132MB Free space 14.4 GB Capacity 14.6GB Shortfall = 1.4/6 GB of memory! Kingston 8GB micro SD card fully formatted; Used…

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banger9365 Posts: 1,702 Forumite

10 January 2012 at 1:38AM

easiest way to see the seize is put the sd card in the pc ,right click on properties ,(win7)
you will see used and free space both will add up to capacity ,
now look at the capacity line eg a one GB sd card will should up has 1,015,283,712 bytes true seize ,968MB windows seizes
that's how windows will see it ,
no mater how you look at it its a 1GB sd card (1,015,283,712 bytes)(968MB)

there or their,one day i might us the right one ,until then tuff

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