Why does an 8 GB and 16 GB USB drive have the same physical size but a different amount of storage?
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Mar 15, 20269103 viewsConfidence Score0%
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In the market, you can get USB drives of different storage sizes. However, among the same brand, I found that those USB drives are physically the same. How can they achieve this? Is it that different USB storage sizes make use of different file systems? If they are using the same storage technology…
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Fix for: Why does an 8 GB and 16 GB USB drive have the same physical size but a different amount of storage?
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The density of the storage is higher. Put simply there are more NAND flash memory chips (or the chips can hold more). The chips are very small though, so there is some empty room in most USB sticks. Making the chip bigger, or adding a second is almo…
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