ssd hard drives

I bought a Samsung series 830, for my m11x r3, its is a 128 gb but after I cloned my old hard drive to the new one it said my total space was 108 gb not 128gb, what happen to the 20 gb?

 

in a nutshell it's because because manufacturers consider 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes while the OS considers 1 GB = 1,073,714,824 bytes (1 * 1,024 * 1,024 * 1,024)

More detailed explanation can be read here.

Part of the capacity might also be reserved by the SSD to do maintenance tasks.

 

Not necessarily. He should still have more space left then that. I'm thinking possibly its maybe how you cloned it that it used the original hardrives layout which might not have matched your new drives. Hence the missing portions.

Check in disk management and see if there is like a unused or hidden portions on the physical disk.

 

My mistake, the formatted capacity should still be 119GB, which means 11GB is unaccounted for.

Maybe it's the recovery partition then. My R1 has a ~14GB recovery partition. +1 on checking from disk management to look for hidden or system partition as said by potentiality.

 

Try this too: The SSD Optimization Guide - The SSD Review Someone linked that to me when I got my SSD, theres a couple tips that give you a few GB back.

 

Thanks for all your help I will look into all of the suggestions. I did notice on my m11x r1 I have a Crucial m4 128gb ssd, that reads 119 gb total space out of 128gb. The Samsung did have an extra file in the the restore files that was not in the Crucial. Maybe Samsung uses more space for restore. I really like this site.