Hard drives (both rotary and SSD; floppies [1] and CDs [2] also) are also manufactured according to base-2 addressing. They are low-level formatted at the fact

Hard drives (both rotary and SSD; floppies [1] and CDs [2] also) are also manufactured according to base-2 addressing. They are low-level formatted at the factory in sectors which are power-of-2 sizes. [3] This has been true for at least 40 years. [4] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_formatting#Low-level_formatting_of_floppy_disks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_formatting#Low-level_form... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-ROM#Sector_structure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-ROM#Sector_structure [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_formatting#Low-level_formatting_(LLF)_of_hard_disks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_formatting#Low-level_form... [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_sector https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_sector