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Wait until they find out how much space is on their 2TB SSD...
That difference is because the drive manufacturer advertises capacity in Terabytes (or Gigabytes) and the operating system displays drive capacity in Tebibytes (or Gibibytes). The former unit is based on 1000 and the latter unit is based on 1024, which lets the drive manufacturer put a bigger number on the product info while technically telling the truth. The drive does have the full advertised capacity.
Hz are Hz though
I believe OP was referring to the space lost after the drive is formatted. Maybe?
The difference between what the OS reports and the marketing info on the product (GBs of difference) is almost entirely due to the different units used, because the filesystem overhead will only be MBs in size.
Also the filesystem overhead is not lost or missing from the disk, you're just using it