Why does my SSD show up as smaller than advertised?

QuestionWhy is my SSD capacity showing up as less than advertised?
AnswerIt is because storage drive capacity is calculated and reported slightly differently than other capacities in computing. If you look at the specifications of any storage drive, 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. So a 480GB SSD is in other words actually 480,000,000,000 bytes.
If you are familiar with computers you know that they calculate things slightly differently. Computers count 1,024 bytes per Kilobyte, 1,024 KB per Megabyte, and 1,024 MB per Gigabyte. This means that when you install a 480,000,000,000 bytes storage drive into a computer, that computer converts the amount of bytes into gigabytes by dividing by 1024 all the way up through the scale, not by dividing by 1,000.
Doing the math, this is what we end up with:
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
And that is why a 480GB SSD will be correctly reported by a computer as 447GB. The larger the numbers are, the larger the discrepancies will be. On an 8GB USB drive the difference between the advertised capacity and the actual is about half a gigabyte, while in our example above the difference is a very noticeable 33GB. It is important to understand that these 33GB aren’t lost. The drive is 480,000,000,000 bytes in capacity, and after 480,000,000,000 bytes have been converted by a computer into Gigabytes, the total capacity comes to 447 GB.
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    That is pretty strange, dlmanimal. Has your Caller ID shown this way since the first day you used the S5? Are you using any applications on your phone to place the call, such as Skype? Caller ID will be different for home and cellular services, since a cell phone ID will be based on how the name is saved in that person's contact details. You can also adjust your Caller ID name for landlines using Share Name ID http://vz.to/1zmtKsw.
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