Why my 8 GB Sansa Fuze has just 7.3 GB available?

I have had my Sansa Fuze for a few months now, and I just noticed that there is only 7.3 total GB of memory available to the advertised 8 GB, and I have epuise.61 GB. What gives? Please bear with me, I had a very unpleasant experience with this drive recently and I'm very tempted to break the thing blown now.

Because that's all ' yer going to get, and there is no more!

Seriously, this is a cause of confusion for many. The short answer is, the computer math is not the same as math 'marketing' In other words, what is sold as 8 GB is not really 8 GB total.

Here is another discussion on the subject with some explanations, much better techno details as I can.

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