
Take any digital storage device (e.g., USB flash drive, hard drive, SD card etc.) and plug it into a Windows computer. Feeling robbed of the remaining 0.05 GB by the manufacturer, I looked it up on the Internet and found (admittedly, to my relief) that every other hard drive user had the same concern. When I bought my first USB flash drive a few years ago (2 GB), I was rather shocked to see that it only showed 1.95 GB as my total available space.

