Perhaps RAM and SSDs have binary scaling because they use banks of matched pairs to store data, unlike HDs whose capacity is determined by number of platters and data density. The question will be: do formatted SSDs lose capacity like HDs, like when a 200Gb HD ends up actually being ~183Gb ?
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PTNYC @ Mar 14th 2007 4:48PM
Perhaps RAM and SSDs have binary scaling because they use banks of matched pairs to store data, unlike HDs whose capacity is determined by number of platters and data density. The question will be: do formatted SSDs lose capacity like HDs, like when a 200Gb HD ends up actually being ~183Gb ?