no

then why don't I get the amount of space claimed? It's as if something is hidden on my flash drive taking up gigs of space!

0/10
http://www.centon.com/support/resources/product-forum/2-faq/1618-why-is-my-drive-showing-a-smaller-capacity-than-the-size-indicated-on-the-drive-label

sage

>>34618211

I believe they're just saying that so people don't ask for a refund.

>>34618151 (OP)
I haven't heard about this for flash drives, but putting backdoors in hidden drive partitions is extremely common practice among PC manufacturers. They typically claim it's for "diagnostics" if you ever bring the computer in for repairs. Yeah right.

>>34618151 (OP)
>Not completing erasing every drive you buy.

>>34618388
>implying that will protect you from the hardware overrides

>>34618416
>not desoldering the memory chips and putting them on your own PCB

I bet you dont even tinfoil

>>34618416
We sci-fantasy now.

No, manufacturers measure capacity by base 10. 1 megabyte = 1,000,000 bytes. Windows (and I believe OSX and Linux) measure 1 megabyte = 1,048,576 bytes. In other words, 1,024 kilobytes, where 1 kilobyte = 1,024 bytes.

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>>34618151 (OP)

>>34618151 (OP)

Did you seriously make two threads for this.

>>34618151 (OP)

3/10

>>34618489
thats what they tell you

because Windows shows you space as GiBs, not GBs.
1TB drive has 932 GiB of space (1000GB).

now, nstall gentoo faggot.

>>34618544

for some reason the least thread got deleted
so i posted it again

a Mod is evidently a NSA agent on here and didn't want you guys to know about this groundbreaking post that will baffle the technological world but maybe that's not true because this post has lasted more than a few minutes now

>>34618256
Are you actually this fucking stupid?

troll/10

>>34618151 (OP)
>On my 32gb flash drive, I only get 28.8gb of space.
Mismatched specs, filesystem overhead.

10/10 did chuckle.

Just in case you are actually this stupid, you might want to read up on bits, bytes and calculate the difference between GiB and GB. You will also want to look up file systems and how they work.

Have you ever wondered why when you purchase tinfoil, you never get the full brain wave blocking capabilities they claim you get?

Truth is big tin and the NSA are actually the same company knitted together through Jewish schemes.

Tl;dr Tin foil actually AMPLIFIES brain control waves

>>34619966
This is actually true.
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?48817-Tin-foil-hats-test-resuts--MIT-

>>34619966

That is why I gave up tin foil years ago and switched to aluminum foil. It has the added bonus of having TWICE the brain-waive blocking capabilities when you fold it over to make it twice as thick. AND when I buy the kilo-folded version it actually comes with an extra 24 layers, which is awesome.

We've got a live one Johnny!

>>34618151 (OP)
ha/10