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All SSDs advertised as either 128GB or 120GB come with exactly 128GiB of total NAND, with 5-15% reserved as spare area. If the spare area is chosen to be 6.87%, then that exactly accounts for the difference between a binary gigabyte (GiB) and decimal gigabyte, so a 128GiB SSD can have exactly 128 decimal GB of usable space.


But Apple's SSD doesn't have 128 GB of usable space; it has 121 GB. Other companies that advertise 128 GB give you 128 GB of usable space.




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