There never was and neither is that pattern, we now have 1tb, 2, 3, 4, etc, 12, 26tb drives. Whatever size they can fit, they do just as they did before.
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SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why were drives 160GB? This doesn’t really follow the 2^x pattern…
pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 2 months ago
olosta@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If the pattern was real 1TB drives would not exist either, since they are about 1.1 TiB.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve seen weird numbers before like 650 or 520 before.
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
The base 2 pattern for storage is a new thing with solid state. It just used to be a multiple what whatever they could fit reliably on a platter in a given form factor. As media got better and heads got smaller they just increased to roundish numbers.