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

[Andreas Schwab]

Krzysztof Halasa <khc@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> It's just that storage vendors broke the computer rule and went with 1000.
>
> 1024 etc. is (should be) natural to disks because the sector size
> is 512 B, 2048 B or something like that.

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.

Andreas.

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