“I bought the PNY flash drive that has 254 gigs of storage, but when I plug it into my pc, it says it only has 231 gigs of storage. It doesn't show any files on it for me to delete. Why is that?”

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• It's actually due to formatting and the resulting file system consuming some of the drive's capacity. This is normal for ALL hard drives and flash drives - you'll never find a drive saying what the formatted capacity is as different formats consume different amounts of the drive (NTFS, FAT32, exFAT, ext2fs, etc., etc.).

  Answered by Razor68 4 years ago

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• The reason is the memory controller needs some GB of the drive for caching. Hopes this helps.

  Answered by SectorHacker 5 years ago

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• I believe that is because it might need enough files/ space to be able to be ran for your device, (like an SD card for a phone)

  Answered by Spartan305 5 years ago

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