Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

Andreas Schwab <[email protected]> writes:

> But other than the sector size there is no natural power of 2 connected to
> disk size.  A disk can have any odd number of sectors.

But the manufacturers don't count in sectors.

It should be consistent, though. "How many GB of disk space do you
need to store 2 GB of USB flash, and how many to store 2 GB RAM image"?
:-)
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Krzysztof Halasa
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