Comment Re:1024-fold (Score 1) 210
The discussion is about capacity, and disk drives, SSDs, and yes even these memory cards ("1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes" - Sandisk) use the metric prefixes correctly. How you can claim that's a "base 10 number of base 2 blocks" is a mystery. Yes, they may address base 2 sized blocks (e.g. 512 or 4096), but the total capacity is specified in base 10. (and the block address is expressed on the interface with a base 2 number, not BCD.) But that's not the capacity, which is what's being discussed.
It seems like disk manufacturers don't reveal specifics like they used to, but it wasn't uncommon to find organizations like 17 sectors/track and other non-base 2/10 layouts.
It seems like disk manufacturers don't reveal specifics like they used to, but it wasn't uncommon to find organizations like 17 sectors/track and other non-base 2/10 layouts.