250 gb ssd showing 208 gb

[Deathroid]

morning my ssd was showing 238gb storage ,after disc cleanup its showing 208gb total storage .how could i get the suppressed storage.

[sandytechy20]

@Deathroid

Welcome to the HP support community.

Your drive shows up smaller than advertised because storage drive capacity is calculated and reported slightly differently than other capacities in computing. If you look at the specifications of any storage device, you will see a note that says something along the lines of ”1 GB = 1 billion bytes. Actual usable capacity may vary.” In other words, the drive capacity is reported on the assumption that 1GB is 1,000,000,000 bytes. A 480GB SSD is, in other words, actually 480,000,000,000 bytes; these are what we call decimal bytes, and it has been an industry standard to use them when advertising storage space.

I hope that helps.

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