Micro SD card not showing all Gigabytes?

[Valhallatier]

So i just installed a Sandisk 64GB Micro SD into my LG G3, but when i go to check the size in settings, it says 59.95 free out of 59.95, i press the erase all button but still same.
Why isn't it showing 64GB? or is every MicroSD like this?

[thekeemo]

all storage media are like this for some reason

[Aniallation]

So i just installed a Sandisk 64GB Micro SD into my LG G3, but when i go to check the size in settings, it says 59.95 free out of 59.95, i press the erase all button but still same.

Why isn't it showing 64GB? or is every MicroSD like this?

Everything is like this. From USBs to memory cards to hard drives to french fries at McDonalds

[terrytek]

Some is used for system functions. Even computers have this issue.

[Sousuke]

For some reason devices call GBs by the anecdote that 1GB = 1000MB not 1024MB then when you put formatting into the mix its more like 1GB = 990mb or something along those lines.

[What's a GPU?]

For some reason devices call GBs by the anecdote that 1GB = 1000MB not 1024MB then when you put formatting into the mix its more like 1GB = 990mb or something along those lines.

They probably list 1GB as 1000MB because it's true

[thekeemo]

They probably list 1GB as 1000MB because it's true

no its 1024mb

[Sousuke]

They probably list 1GB as 1000MB because it's true

 

-edit as I was wrong-

[What's a GPU?]

no its 1024mb

Lol, no it's not. Show me some proof of this.

[Sousuke]

Lol, no it's not. Show me some proof of this.

https://kb.iu.edu/d/ackw

 

1 kilobyte (KB) 1,024 bytes 

1 megabyte (MB) 1,048,576 bytes 

1 gigabyte (GB) 1,073,741,824 bytes 

1 terabyte (TB) 1,099,511,627,776 bytes 

1 petabyte (PB) 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes

[What's a GPU?]

https://kb.iu.edu/d/ackw

 

1 kilobyte (KB) 1,024 bytes 

1 megabyte (MB) 1,048,576 bytes 

1 gigabyte (GB) 1,073,741,824 bytes 

1 terabyte (TB) 1,099,511,627,776 bytes 

1 petabyte (PB) 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes

This is only in reference to RAM memory, is it not? Hard drives are referenced by the base 10 system.

[thekeemo]

This is only in reference to RAM memory, is it not? Hard drives are referenced by the base 10 system.

nope all storage

[Sousuke]

This is only in reference to RAM memory, is it not? Hard drives are referenced by the base 10 system.

 

Your correct. My mistake.

[What's a GPU?]

nope all storage

No, I can't find Sandisk's chart specifically but here is Kingstons. http://www.kingston.com/us/usb/storage_chart

You can see beneath the chart it shows my point.

[Sousuke]

nope all storage

 

Base 10 definition[edit]

• 1 GB = 1000000000 bytes (= 1000³ B = 10⁹ B) is the definition recommended by the International System of Units (SI) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).^[2]This definition is used in networking contexts and most storage media, particularly hard drives, Flash-based storage,^[3][4] and DVDs, and is also consistent with the other uses of the SI prefix in computing, such as CPU clock speeds or measures of performance. The Mac OS X file manager from version 10.6 and higher is a notable example of this usage in software. Since Snow Leopard, file sizes are reported in decimal units.^[5]

Base 2 definition[edit]

• 1 GiB = 1073741824 bytes (= 1024³ B = 2³⁰ B) is the definition used by Microsoft Windows in reference to computer memory (e.g., RAM). This definition is synonymous with the unambiguous IEC standard name gibibyte.

 

Source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte

[Pomfinator]

Manufacturers use Base 10 to tell you how large their storage device is.  For example, a 64GB SD card really does have 64,000,000,000 bytes, BUT most OS's report size with Base 2.

 

Meaning that 64,000,000,000 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 = 59.6 GB of reported storage.

[cesrai]

no its 1024mb

No it isn't just watch this video