> Sector sizes are different between drives anyway.
Yeah, 512 bytes or, now, 4096 bytes - neither is a power of 10
The math is worse because the computer (address space) and hard drive are actually base 2 and vendors are selling in base 10.
This worship of base 10 in every aspect of our lives, even when it doesn't make sense and cheats us out of money, is sad. Computers are base 2, memory is base 2, and storage should be base 2 or else its just a batch of lies. I guess I should be glad the humanity didn't have 11 fingers.
The computer is showing you a number, calculating using base 2 will not be any stress on a human since it doesn't show every byte anyway.
Yeah, 512 bytes or, now, 4096 bytes - neither is a power of 10
The math is worse because the computer (address space) and hard drive are actually base 2 and vendors are selling in base 10.
This worship of base 10 in every aspect of our lives, even when it doesn't make sense and cheats us out of money, is sad. Computers are base 2, memory is base 2, and storage should be base 2 or else its just a batch of lies. I guess I should be glad the humanity didn't have 11 fingers.
The computer is showing you a number, calculating using base 2 will not be any stress on a human since it doesn't show every byte anyway.