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Re:Modern HDDs have gotten somewhat better by cesarb on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @01:37PM (#31839185)
> HDD’s have never used base 2 addressing.

The two most common sector sizes on HDDs are 512 bytes (a byte being 8 bits) and 4096 bytes. Base 2 units make a lot more sense with these power-of-two sector sizes than base 10 units.

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Re:Modern HDDs have gotten somewhat better by taffer on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @02:53PM (#31840246)
Ethernet packages are 1518 bytes or 12144 bits. Maybe we should start measuring network speed in power-of-12144.

No honestly: Kilo should always mean 1'000, Mega should always mean 1'000'000 and not 1'048'576.

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Re:Modern HDDs have gotten somewhat better by cassianoleal on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @04:51PM (#31841706)
> Kilo should always mean 1'000, Mega should always mean 1'000'000 and not 1'048'576.

And that's why we have "kibi", "mebi", etc.

So Kilo means times 1,000. Kibi means times 1,024 and so on.

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