Hey Sony! Where's the rest of my memory?

lamsicle

Just treated myself to a waterproof mp3 player (swimming can be boring). It's a Sony NWZ-W273 - 4GB.

However upon linking it to my laptop I find that it only has 3.54GB!

Is this fair?

I'd appreciate your thoughts.

kwikbreaks

Hard disks and SD type disks which this is are specified as 1000B = 1KB, 1000KB = 1MB and 1000MB = 1GB. Windows counts and reports using binary style K M and G so 1024B = 1KB etc. The result is that hard disks, USB drives, MP3 players etc. always look like they are less than you might expect.

Ozzy89

You technically never receive the full memory capacity, due to the reason that some of the memory is used to store the 'operating system' to manage playlist and firmware updates.

bluboy

Almost as bad as buying a Samsung S4!

lamsicle

Ozzy - that takes up even further space leaving only 3.26GB free. At least I can delete some of it.

lamsicle

Thanks kwikbreaks. I didn't know that.

A shame as I wanted to whinge!

bebewoo

I've got one of those too, I can never get it to stay in my ears when swimming, I'm sure there must be a trick to it.

lamsicle

Haven't used it yet. I saw a comment on another forum recommending Zog's ear putty.....or something similar.

Ozzy89

lamsicle wrote: »

Ozzy - that takes up even further space leaving only 3.26GB free. At least I can delete some of it.

MP3 players are quiet relax in terms of what you can delete unlike smart phones which are locked.

kwikbreaks

lamsicle wrote: »

Thanks kwikbreaks. I didn't know that.

A shame as I wanted to whinge!

Well you should really still be left with ~ 3.7GB but as has already been said some gets used by the player itself.