Bought kingston highspeed 32gb pendrive....but available space showing is only 28gb.

@Mareena (443)
May 25, 2017 2:18am CST
No files are visible in the pendrive. Where this 4gb has gone. Clear format made no change.
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
25 May 17
The explanation is that pendrive manufacturers count bytes differently from the way that computers do. The pendrive manufacturers count in thousdands so that 32GB is equal to 32,000,000,000 bytes. Computers, however count in multiples of 1024 (= 2^10), so that a pendrive marked as '32GB' only contains 29.80232238769531 GB as the computer counts them.
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@Mareena (443)
25 May 17
Informative
@gilggg (2538)
• Israel
25 May 17
You should ask/call Kingston customer service about this lack of GB... Is it specific problem of your product or is it mistake of writing 32GB...
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@Mareena (443)
25 May 17
I do...they told its system reading memory size....this reduction in actual size is common in all pendrives as per their side
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@gilggg (2538)
• Israel
25 May 17
@Mareena good to know...
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@minx267 (15527)
• Hartford, Connecticut
25 May 17
I read about this when buying SD cards the last time I need them and some people said that even though is says it was such and such It was actually lower.. My friend and I then purchases 2 of the sames size cards but different brands.. and when they came we discovered his had a lot less than mine. but both were still under the amount they were supposed to be. I think it is a common practice to rip people off.
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@Mareena (443)
25 May 17
Yes the available memory will always be lower than that mentioned. It varies too. Same issue with my memory card too.
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@prashu228 (37526)
• India
25 May 17
Did you buy it online? Or offline
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@Mareena (443)
25 May 17
Lol...seems owlwings say the right fact.
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