Confused / SanDisk

[EvanDavis]

I have THIS 128gb SanDisk USB stick bought from Currys. I'm a little confused. In properties it is only showing up as 114gb. Where has the other 14gb gone ?

 

[TriplexDread]

You do usually lose a certain percentage during the formatting process. I think about 7-8%
You seem to have lost about 11%

 

[muckshifter]

... because, Manufacturers use the 'format' that a 128GB SanDisk USB flash drive has a total capacity of 128,000,000,000 bytes at the unformatted level (where 1GB=1,000,000,000 bytes). But, the OS uses a different 'format' of 1,073,741,824 bytes.

Oh, and it's been that way since time began, and no, the figures still won't add up.

Sandisk explains