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minus-squareRedex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·5 days agoYou absolutely can build 1000MB storage, literally almost all SSDs to my knowledge use SI units for storage (meaning 1TB = 1000GB). E.g. here, first link I found https://www.crucial.com/ssd/t705/CT2000T705SSD5 under footnote 6. 1 GB = 1 billion bytes
minus-squareHexesofVexes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 days agoGood point, I was thinking in terms of addressing being base 2 - (so when you call a memory address you’re working in base 16 normally). Also that rather affirms the idea - selling less while disguising it as more seems a more likely genesis.
You absolutely can build 1000MB storage, literally almost all SSDs to my knowledge use SI units for storage (meaning 1TB = 1000GB). E.g. here, first link I found https://www.crucial.com/ssd/t705/CT2000T705SSD5
under footnote 6. 1 GB = 1 billion bytes
Good point, I was thinking in terms of addressing being base 2 - (so when you call a memory address you’re working in base 16 normally).
Also that rather affirms the idea - selling less while disguising it as more seems a more likely genesis.