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Still the "minimum" unit, the sector or "block" is 512 or 4096 bytes, so the multiple/power of 2 is "ingrained" in the media.
Still the "minimum" unit, the sector or "block" is 512 or 4096 bytes, so the multiple/power of 2 is "ingrained" in the media.