On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:23 AM, <casper....@sun.com> wrote: > > > >IMHO, what matters is that pretty much everything from the disk controller > >to the CPU and network interface is advertised in power-of-2 terms and > disks > >sit alone using power-of-10. And students are taught that computers work > >with bits and so everything is a power of 2. > > That is simply not true: > > Memory: power of 2 (bytes) > Network: power of 10 (bits/s)) > Disk: power of 10 (bytes) > CPU Frequency: power of 10 (cycles/s) > SD/Flash/..: power of 10 (bytes) > Bus speed: power of 10 > > Main memory is the odd one out. >
My bad on generalizing that information. Perhaps the software stack dealing with disks should be changed to use power-of-10. Unlikely too. -- Giovanni
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