
Why a 1TB SSD shows up as 931GB
Drive makers count 1GB as one billion bytes; Windows counts it as 1,073,741,824. Same storage, two rulers, so 1TB reads as 931.32GB. Here is how to tell where the unit difference ends and formatting overhead begins.

Drive makers count 1GB as one billion bytes; Windows counts it as 1,073,741,824. Same storage, two rulers, so 1TB reads as 931.32GB. Here is how to tell where the unit difference ends and formatting overhead begins.

V30 and U3 mean the same 30MB/s floor, A2 measures IOPS rather than speed, and the EX mark is a different interface entirely. Here is what each symbol guarantees, with the required grade back-calculated from video bitrates.

Burning a 1TB SSD's 600TBW inside five years takes 329GB of writes a day. At 20GB a day it takes 82 years. Converted to DWPD, every capacity lands on the same 0.33.