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Computer memory and storage
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RE: Computer memory and storage
June 29, 2016 at 5:47 pm
(June 29, 2016 at 5:34 pm)Tiberius Wrote:
(June 29, 2016 at 2:10 am)Mathilda Wrote: 1) You do use that extra 2 GB
2) If you devoted that extra 2GB to storage you wouldn't be able to find anything on the drive

Whilst it's true that some portion of the drive is reserved for the file allocation table, on a 32GB drive there's no way that table would be 2GB by default. It's probably in the region of a few MB.

Pocaracas' answer is the correct one.

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Computer memory and storage

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Computer memory and storage - by dyresand - June 29, 2016 at 1:09 am
RE: Computer memory and storage - by vorlon13 - June 29, 2016 at 1:25 am
RE: Computer memory and storage - by Thumpalumpacus - June 29, 2016 at 6:08 am
RE: Computer memory and storage - by vorlon13 - June 29, 2016 at 1:27 am
RE: Computer memory and storage - by I_am_not_mafia - June 29, 2016 at 2:10 am
RE: Computer memory and storage - by ignoramus - June 29, 2016 at 4:59 am
RE: Computer memory and storage - by pocaracas - June 29, 2016 at 5:58 am
RE: Computer memory and storage - by Angrboda - June 29, 2016 at 12:17 pm
RE: Computer memory and storage - by Jackalope - June 29, 2016 at 11:59 am
RE: Computer memory and storage - by Jackalope - June 29, 2016 at 12:01 pm
RE: Computer memory and storage - by pocaracas - June 29, 2016 at 12:15 pm
RE: Computer memory and storage - by Excited Penguin - June 29, 2016 at 12:16 pm
RE: Computer memory and storage - by vorlon13 - June 29, 2016 at 1:22 pm
RE: Computer memory and storage - by Jackalope - June 29, 2016 at 2:26 pm
RE: Computer memory and storage - by Mr.wizard - June 29, 2016 at 1:17 pm
RE: Computer memory and storage - by vorlon13 - June 29, 2016 at 1:21 pm
RE: Computer memory and storage - by vorlon13 - June 29, 2016 at 5:25 pm
RE: Computer memory and storage - by Tiberius - June 29, 2016 at 5:34 pm
RE: Computer memory and storage - by pocaracas - June 29, 2016 at 5:47 pm
RE: Computer memory and storage - by abaris - June 29, 2016 at 5:34 pm
RE: Computer memory and storage - by ignoramus - June 29, 2016 at 7:26 pm
RE: Computer memory and storage - by vorlon13 - June 29, 2016 at 8:00 pm
RE: Computer memory and storage - by Jackalope - June 29, 2016 at 10:22 pm

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