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Counterpoint: disk sector sizes are not multiples or clean fractions of 1000, and it's unlikely to change anytime soon because we'll likely store files as octet
by selfhoster11 4y ago
Counterpoint: disk sector sizes are not multiples or clean fractions of 1000, and it's unlikely to change anytime soon because we'll likely store files as octets of binary information (binary digits) for the rest of time.
It makes no sense to count it in 1000-based SI units. You'll perpetually mis-align the data in whichever underlying storage technology you're using, and it's bad for performance and resource consumption.
- diroussel 4y agoAs much as i dislike the names, kibibytes etc, it makes sense not to re-use SI unit prefixes. SI did comes first and it broadly applicable. Ask for disk sector alignment; we don’t have disk sectors any more, we use SSDs with blocks. And the sizes don’t need to have a neat number of kilobytes. Just the same as a litre of water doesn’t have a neat number of H2O molecules in it.