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Originally Posted by Pibe38
I'm kinda new at the whole SD card thing, I do know that 2GB are not really 2GB... so, I just got a 2GB Trascend card for $12, is it normal that it shows available 1.87GB? The number just seemed a little off.
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It is about right. There are two things that make it looking less as the capacity indicated. One is the "accounting" standard. In computing world binary is the standard so 1 MB is really 2 ^ 20 or 1024 * 1024 = 1,048,576 bytes but manufacturers often use 1,000,000 bytes to denote 1 MB in the name of "simplicity". The OS displays the size in binary term so it will be about 5% less at the beginning.
The second impacts to the size is the formating. In WM5, mostly formatted in FAT or FAT16, which uses a small portion for the addressing table and any portion that can not be rounded up by binary addressing will be discarded as well.
Jeff