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I recently purchase an 512 SSD notebook and I verify that there was much less space than I thought.

I checked at the disk size (not partition size neither file system space) and I found that the disk itself does have only 476,81GB.

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What is the cause for it? Where are the missing space? The SSD is Samsung mzmte512hmhp.

karel
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Daniel Santos
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This is due to manufacturers using 1000 bytes as the size of a kilobyte, while in reality it is 1024 bytes. This issue has existed for quite a while now and is considered industry standard.
See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive#Units

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