Hi there. I used Synchthing to transfer a 308 GB folder to my Android phone but the size in phone is around 331 GB. Why is this so?
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It’s 308 GiB vs 331 GB. Windows misleadingly labels GiB as GB, which causes the issue. In general, there are three patterns:
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1 GB = 109 B. This is how drive vendors and MacOS use it. When they say 2TB, they really mean 2 terabytes.
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1 GB = 109 B and 1 GiB = 230 B with the option to pick which one to display. This is how most Linux distros handle it.
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1 GB = 230 B. This is how Windows handles it.
I guess the file manager installed on your Android is using GB as an actual GB, not Windows’s mislabeling GiB as GB.
Thanks for the detailed explanation. How do I make Windows to show actual GB and not GiB?
Probably through some third-party window manager instead of explorer.exe because a cursory search shows that it’s impossible to do it even with regedit. I have no idea about third-party window managers for Windows outside of them existing.
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It looks to me like a difference between GB (1000^3 B) and GiB (1024^3 B)
Seems like you’re right. Why is that so?
