10gb missing on my 850 evo ?

[Pool]

I just noticed that my SSD is shown as a 223GB while it's supposed to be a  232GB (250GB) ones. After some research I found out it was due to the hybrid mode or some kind of fast boot feature in windows but even when I disable it, it doesn't seem to change while speccy recognize it properly.

 

 

[Azsheran]

Did you take a look in the Partition Manager? 

[FunkyFeatures]

I just noticed that my SSD is shown as a 223GB while it's supposed to be a  232GB (250GB) ones. After some research I found out it was due to the hybrid mode or some kind of fast boot feature in windows but even when I disable it, it doesn't seem to change while speccy recognize it properly.

 

Check the disk partitions - some partitions are hidden, disk management will show them to you. Most likely some kind of hidden recovery partition (I have a Toshiba laptop that does the exact same thing)

And please, remember to follow your own threads. Otherwise you will only see when we quote you.

[Nineshadow]

250 decimal GB are equal to 232 GiB (binary)

 

It's the way it's supposed to be.

 

Explaination :

When people refer to the storage size of disks, they usually use multiples of 10. A Gigabyte is a byte * 10⁹ in this case.

It goes like this :

kB- 10³

MB - 10⁶

GB - 10⁹

And so on.

However, computers don't use base 10. They use binary. So, for the computer, a gigabyte is actually 2³⁰, which is pretty similar to the same value in decimal.

This time, it goes like this :

kiB = 2¹⁰

Mib = 2²⁰

GiB = 2³⁰

 

 

Now that answers why it's only 232GiB, and not 250.

 

However, the partition is only 223GiB in size. To see what the rest 9GBs are used for, you'll need to run diskpart and see if you have unused space or a hidden (recovery usually) partition.

[Azsheran]

250 decimal GB are equal to 232 GiB (binary)

 

It's the way it's supposed to be.

 

Explaination :

When people refer to the storage size of disks, they usually use multiples of 10. A Gigabyte is a byte * 10⁹ in this case.

However, computers don't use base 10. They use binary. So, for the computer, a gigabyte is actually 2³⁰, which is pretty similar to the same value in decimal.

You are right, it should be 232 GiB but he only has 223 GiB so there are currently 9 GiB missing, thats what he asked...  

[Nineshadow]

You are right, it should be 232 GiB but he only has 223 GiB so there are currently 9 GiB missing, thats what he asked...

I haven't finished my post yet D:

[1823alex]

Take a look in disk management and make sure you don't have a random 9gb partition on the drive, but be careful as you can screw up a lot in disk management.

[Pool]

Thanks ! It solved the issue.