Institute - (WVSU)
So after putting the card in a computer, it read it as a 30MB card vs 32GB and would not format.... Running an 8GB for now til I get another card
Ummm, that's actually normal.
Used by memory makers, GB is normal powers of 10 used to define something - so a 32 GB Micro SDCard is 32,000,000,000 bytes.
however, Bytes are actually calculated base 2, meaning powers of 2. So, 1 GB is actually 1,073,741,824 bytes long. Thus, 32 GB is really 34,359,738,368 bytes, not 32,000,000,000.
And, if you divide 32,000,000,000 by 1,073,741,824 you get 29.8023223876953125
actual GB, which rounds up to 30 GB.
It's the same with all sorts of magnetic media - USB Flash devices, hard drives and SSDs, etc.