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>HDD’s have never used base 2 addressing. Still the "minimum" unit, the sector or "block" is 512 or 4096 bytes, so the multiple/power of 2 is "ingrained" in th
by jaclaz 4y ago
>HDD’s have never used base 2 addressing.
Still the "minimum" unit, the sector or "block" is 512 or 4096 bytes, so the multiple/power of 2 is "ingrained" in the media.
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- 0cVlTeIATBs 4y agoAny HDD spec sheet will give a base-2 definition for "MB". They use this when reporting cache size.