Re:Modern HDDs have gotten somewhat better
by Akronymus on Thursday June 23, 2022 @04:53AM
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For me, the egregious part isn't even the difference in base 2 and base 10 but rather that windows uses base 2 but displays it as base 10 units. (Internally uses Gibibytes but displays the unit as Gigabytes, for example)
As the parent said, networking. (Which also suffers from an unfortunate bits/bytes mismatch.)
The real problem with storage IMO is that software used base-2 measurements and vendors used base-10 and eventually the discrepancy got big enough to be noticeable.