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brucine Posted messages 24378 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   -

Hello*

How many GB is 512 GB SSD?

Thank you in advance*

(*) Basic elements of politeness added by CCM Moderation

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baladur13 Posted messages 47542 Registration date   Status Modérateur Last intervention   14 371
 

Hello,

Why make it complicated when you can make it simple

1 Byte in English (8 bits) = 1 Octet in French (8 bits as well)

1GB (GigaByte) = 1Go (Gigaoctet)

Why confuse the issue with GiB?

Be careful not to confuse GB (GigaByte) with Gb (Gigabits)
1GB=8Gb


It's very difficult to catch a black cat in a dark room.
Especially when it's not there...

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brucine Posted messages 24378 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   4 093
 

Hello,

The initial question was interpreted by Fabul because there is indeed no point in knowing how many GB a disk of N GB represents.

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fabul Posted messages 42078 Registration date   Status Modérateur Last intervention   6 029
 

Hello,

It depends on the brands, more or less 465GB for Windows.

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brucine Posted messages 24378 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   4 093
 

Hello,

This has nothing to do with the brand:

500 GB = 500 GiB = 500,000,000 bytes, which I divide 3 times by 1024: 465.66 GB

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fabul Posted messages 42078 Registration date   Status Modérateur Last intervention   6 029 > brucine Posted messages 24378 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention  
 

Hello Brucine,

Yes, it is related.

SSDs do not all have the same final size unlike hard drives; it varies between brands.

Some are ≈120-128, some ≈250-256, some are ≈500-512.

And manufacturers certainly reserve the right to play with the parameters.

It's like 32GB USB drives; some are 27GB, some are 28GB, some are 29GB...

But two disks of the same brand from the same series will generally be equal.

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fabul Posted messages 42078 Registration date   Status Modérateur Last intervention   6 029 > fabul Posted messages 42078 Registration date   Status Modérateur Last intervention  
 

My Samsung MZVLB512HBJQ-000L7: 512.1 GB shows 476 GB for Windows

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brucine Posted messages 24378 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   4 093 > fabul Posted messages 42078 Registration date   Status Modérateur Last intervention  
 

No, the arithmetic operation is always the same; it's just that the manufacturer sells a disk that nominally has 512 GB, just like car dealers sell pretty much anything for 1500 cc (most often below...).

In ancient times, we took into account space lost due to formatting and cluster sizes (if I remember correctly, 8 or 16 MB, which are not significant at the display level), but this is no longer significant on current disks.

For a system disk, the boot partition is unusable, but it is also of relatively little importance.

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Panth33ra Posted messages 22984 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   Ambassadeur 2 334
 

Hello as well (politeness is essential on the CCM Forum),

The answer is here... https://www.convertworld.com/fr/mesures-informatiques/gigaoctet-gigabyte.html


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Fido
 

Hi

If we do a calculation, we always come up with the same result

If we go to buy 1 SSD online, I agree with Fabul

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