Viper1 on 12 March 2009
| Daileon said: Yes, this. My post was kinda confusing, but you understood. The sizes are "weird" because the "conventional" HDs are 20, 30, 40, 60, 80GB... I've never seen a HD of 32 or 64 GB, unless they're SSDs or some kind of flash memory. |
Technically, even those that are 20, 30, 40, 60, etc...are not what is listed. Those are marketing numbers because they are easier for consumers to grasp. The actual numbers are slightly smaller. The actual binary volume of a 100 GB HDD is 93 GiB. RAM is the same by the way.
SSD's have mostly been marketed using the proper binary number system (multiples of 2) which is why you see sizes such as 32 and 64 GB.
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