Sandisk 16GB Cruzer Blade Pen Drive - memory capacity issue

Drives, whether hard drives or USB drives, have space overhead when they are formated.  There are unused bytes between the segments and clusters and bytes used for the File Allocation Table and bytes held in reserve to recover from damaged bytes as they occur over time.

The overview image at the top of this link shows a rough idea of how a formated drive looks.  But it doesn’t show the slack bytes between the custers.

http://www.beginningtoseethelight.org/fat16/