SOLVED Sandisk microsd 64gb only show 59,47gb - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I got a sandisk 64gb and formatted it in phone, but it only show 59,47gb free? I tried to format it several times. Any sugestions how to get the missing 4gb?
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No sd-card will have a "true" storage... e.g. 8gb will be 7.n, 16 will be 14/15.n... 64 GB will not really be 64gb, just like hard drives, its not really 1TB, its 980/90 something

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OMG, where have you been for the last 10 years ?? Is it the firt memory card that you buy ? Thats perfectly normal
Capacity is measured really stupidly in all digital media storage (hard drives, memory cards, etc). All companies define a gigabyte to be 1000MB, and a megabyte to be 1000kb, etc etc. In reality it's 1024KB per MB, and 1024MB per GB.

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It's just a normal part of formatting any card and no way to get more.

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aurelios69 said:
OMG, where have you been for the last 10 years ?? Is it the firt memory card that you buy ? Thats perfectly normal
Capacity is measured really stupidly in all digital media storage (hard drives, memory cards, etc). All companies define a gigabyte to be 1000MB, and a megabyte to be 1000kb, etc etc. In reality it's 1024KB per MB, and 1024MB per GB.
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+1,
go check your computer hard drive space, heck, even that 16gb internal you have doesn't add up to true 16gb. it's just a way of marketing to fool people :/

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Actual capacity will be 7.2% lower than the reported capacity in GB. If you are buying storage measured in a different unit, that percentage will change (there's an almost 10% different in reported vs actual for a 1 TB hard drive).

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Flash-based drives also usually reserve a portion of their capacity to replace defective sectors. Sometimes the manufacturers include this "hidden" capacity into their marketing.
The available capacity also depends on the filesystem, the index, journal and other low-level stuff has to be stored somewhere.

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aurelios69 said:
OMG, where have you been for the last 10 years ?? Is it the firt memory card that you buy ? Thats perfectly normal
Capacity is measured really stupidly in all digital media storage (hard drives, memory cards, etc). All companies define a gigabyte to be 1000MB, and a megabyte to be 1000kb, etc etc. In reality it's 1024KB per MB, and 1024MB per GB.
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"perfectly normal"
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