When manufacturers sell a 2TB SSD, they calculate storage using the decimal system. To them, 1TB equals 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. So 2TB means 2 trillion bytes.
But your operating system (Windows, macOS, Linux) doesn’t count storage that way. It uses the binary system, where 1TB (technically 1 TiB) equals 1,099,511,627,776 bytes.
So when your OS converts those same 2 trillion bytes into binary units, it shows:
2,000,000,000,000 ÷ 1,099,511,627,776 ≈ 1.8 TB
It’s just two different measurement standards fighting each other.
On top of that, a tiny bit of space is also used for file systems, formatting, and system metadata, which makes the number look slightly smaller again.
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