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1,000,000,000 bytes. A 480GB SSD is, in other words, actually 480,000,000,000 bytes. Windows OS uses binary
bytes, so 1,024 bytes per Kilobyte, 1,024 KB per Megabyte, and so on. This means that when you have a
480,000,000,000 bytes storage drive into a Windows computer, that computer converts the number of bytes into
gigabytes by dividing by 1024 all the way up through the scale, not by dividing by 1,000. So:
480,000,000,000 Bytes / 1,024 = 468,750,000 actual Kilobytes
468,750,000 KB / 1,024 = 457,764 actual Megabytes
457,764 MB / 1,024 = 447 actual Gigabytes
This is why a 480GB SSD will be correctly reported by a Windows computer as 447GB.
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