Is it normal for a 64gb ps vita memory card to only show 57gb?

honestly it probably would not have bothered me but i saw a thread on gbatemp complaining about missing gb before my card arrived then when i went into system information it shows 57gb...

and i looked online and multiple places say its meant to show 60gb in settings

but is this not normal because from what i read its meant to be 59.6gb or something right?

 

Agreed!
The last 1TB drive I put in my PS2 only could access 931.51GB...
(which is basically a 4.2GB-per-60GB storage loss, essentially losing double what atreyu is experiencing smh)

They get away with it because every 1,024 bytes equals 1 GB... ugh and then system files taking up space on top of that *feeling cheated over here*

 

What Im concerned about is that multiple people have said 60gb its meant to show where some people only getting 57gb for whatever reason

I have formatted etc... even tried restoring no luck still shows as 57gb
it is sadly normal for stuff to shows less but this is even more less than normal

It was an import but i had no other choice no stores near me had anything bigger than a 4gb card
model is PCH-Z641 G which seems to standard now since they are so rare big memory cards

 

It should at least be 59,6 GB:
64,000,000,000b = 64 GB but only 59,GiB
64,000,000,000 / 1024 = 62,500,000 k
62,500,000 k / 1024 = 61,035m
61,035m / 1024 = 59,6 G

My 5tb HDD only shows 4.5, but its 5,000,000,000,000 bytes

There's also the terms gibibyte, mebibyte, ... To be able to tell the difference, but i never really use that. So 1k could alwas refer to 1000 or 1024

Edit: just realized i used gibibyte in the 2. line in this post

 

@faith genesis raven
Maybe it comes down to format techniques?
Is everyone reporting these numbers using the same exact method?

@atreyu187
This is kinda great news for the OP possibly, since you seem to have everything you need to figure out what the difference is already.
Did you format all three differently for example?
Are they the same model cards?
Imports, etc.?
...and so on...

 

Who knows but this is a weird thing indeed
there is only one way to format a ps vita memory card through the console itself if not mistaken
so it may be down to which version jap korean hk etc...

 

If there is indeed only one way to format, it is looking like we already have an answer to this

Only other thing I can think of is different model vitas possibly have a different formatting system in place, or more/less system data to store, etc.
Unless different firmwares affect it of course.

I guess the only way to be sure of some of that, is simply formatting the same mem card on different vita models/firmware to compare results.

 

Do you have "box" from that card? I'm interested in EAN/UPC code.

4948872413596

or

4905524941890

 

it's: 4905524941890

 

Look like this one is PCH-Z641G sold for Taiwan market: http://store.sony.com.tw/product/PCH-Z641G
Same for Korea: http://www.playstation.co.kr/psvita/peripheral/3252

Japan model is PCH-Z641 J: http://www.jp.playstation.com/psvita/peripheral/pchz641j.html

Summary: Don't buy PCH-Z641G cards with (probably) 4905524941890 EAN/UPC code on box.
Not confirmed

If anyone have possibility to add something here, then do this!

 

It's absolute robbery the prices sony charge for these cards.

 

Indeed but they have been selling like hotcakes recently
With stuff like retroarch vitamin and of course probably much more in the future

and with it becoming more and more difficult to find a good source of them with the increase of interest in them

i did not have many other options of getting a 64gb card in the UK

and its a shame if there are versions which are not up to standard
but as long as it works thats the main thing

 

indeed. I had to sell blood 'til I was white as a ghost just to buy mine...and that was only a 16GB card! imagine if I had tried to buy a 64GB card. I'd have been carried out in a stretcher!