223Mb instead of 240Mb

Legacy SanDisk Products Ultra II Internal SSD
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Hi!

I have bought SanDisk Ultra II Solid State Drives 240Gb some hours ago. I have cloned my HDD to SSD successfully, but i saw something what disapoint me.

1st At begining EZ Gig IV identified my SSD as USB 228.937 Mb ! 

2nd At finishing Dashboard identifie my SSD as 223.57 Gb. 
What i did wrong?

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that is the capacity after formatting. Storage manufacturers define 1GB as 1 billion bytes. Operating systems however define a GB as 2 to the 30th power. It has always been this was since computers were invented. Even your HDD will show a smaller formatted capacity than the actual drive raw storage capacity. see the knowledgebase article below.

http://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/46/ 

Capacity of the device (as reported by many operating systems) does not match its label

Why is the capacity of my device (as reported by many operating systems) different than the capacity that is listed on its label?

Definitions of a Megabyte :
1. Operating Systems commonly define capacity as follows:
     - Kilobyte (KB) as: 2 to the 10th power (1,024 bytes)
     - Megabyte (MB) as:  2 to the 20th power (1,024 X 1,024 bytes = 1,048,576 bytes)
     - Gigabyte (GB) as: 2 to the 30th power (1,024 X 1,024 X 1,024 bytes = 1,073,741,824 bytes)

2. Disk Drive and Flash Memory Card Manufacturers commonly define a MB as one million bytes (exactly 1,000,000 bytes) and a GB as one billion bytes (exactly 1,000,000,000 bytes). 

SanDisk defines 1 GB as 1,000,000,000 bytes.  Operating Systems define 1 GB as 1,073,741,824 BYTES.

Note: Some capacity is used for formatting and other functions and thus not available for data storage.

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Ok. I understood that 1 GB of manufacture may differ  against to 1 GB of OS  about 7.37%

It’s just about the same as my “lost” 16.5 Gb for 240 GB. 

Thank you very much.

ps Very glad use my new device. And i say big respect to Sandisk  for solution (EZ Gig4 in SD Dashboard) of cloning HDD, made for users. It takes only 22 minutes in my case. 

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same here 480gb and in reality 447. I belive the SSD is holding abit of space so it can have backup blocks or whatever is called in case of failing.