On 06/24/2013 07:22 AM, John Reiser wrote:

Device sizes vary according to manufacturer and model.  3% is not uncommon.

[snip examples]

Flash drives, like RAM, (technically, they are non-volatile RAM) always come in binary units. The difference between the nominal and actual capacity is space used for bookkeeping and replacement of faulty blocks. Perhaps the manufacturer of your last example expects the flash chips to be not very reliable. :-)
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