Re: Window is stealing my HD size

Folkert Rienstra <see_reply-to@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Gerhard Fiedler" <gefiedler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Bob Willard wrote:

Personally, I do not recall HD vendors ever sticking to the
powers-of-two sizes that were near-universal for RAM.

Which makes sense. The raw storage units on a HD are sequential by
nature, and there's nothing particularly binary about them.

The minimum unit -the sector size- is.

The raw storage units of RAM, however, are accessed through a
defined set
of binary address lines, usually located in component cases where
size and pin count is important and minimized, and therefore (so
far) the usual sizes are binary potencies.

As far as a memory slot goes.
Then it becomes linear, just as with diskdrive sectors, platters etc.

No it doesnt, its still binary organised.

And even in a memory chip there doesn't necessarily be a full
complement of smaller units (eg the MoSys memory chips
came in odd sizes using a technique called Multibank DRAM)
or some units are set aside as spares -similar to disk drives-
leaving less than a full complement of units for actual storage.

Completely off with the fairys now on ORGANISATION.

It's quite possible that RAM storage goes the same way disk storage
has gone and becomes simply a quantity, not necessarily a binary one,
disconnected from specific case requirements -- and at that point,
the more common decimal potency multipliers may start being used.

Which wouldn't be a bad thing... it's about time that 1 MB
of data in RAM fits in 1 MB of storage space on disk :)

It does actually. Using exactly 2048 512-byte sectors.



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