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Feb 04, 2026 - 11:32 AM
A 512GB SSD typically provides around 476GB of usable space after formatting and accounting for the difference between manufacturers' definitions of a gigabyte (1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes) and the operating system's calculation (1GB = 1,073,741,824 bytes). Some space is also reserved for the file system and overprovisioning, so the exact usable capacity may vary slightly depending on the drive and system.
