Data transfers have always been in base 10. And disc manufacturers are actually right. If anything, it’s probably Microsoft that has popularised the wrong way of counting data.
It has nothing to do with wanting to make disks be bigger or whatever.
Underlying storage doesn’t actually care about being in powers of 2^10 or anything, it’s only the controllers that do, but not the storage medium. You’re mixing up the different possibilities to fill your storage with (which is 2^(number of bits)).
Looking at triple layer cell SSDs, how would you ever reach a 2^10, a 2^20 or 2^30 capacity when each physical cell represents three bits? You could only do multiples of three. So you can do three gibibytes, but that’s just as arbitrary as any other configuration.
Data transfers have always been in base 10. And disc manufacturers are actually right. If anything, it’s probably Microsoft that has popularised the wrong way of counting data.
It has nothing to do with wanting to make disks be bigger or whatever.
Why is it the wrong way when its the way the underlying storage works?
Underlying storage doesn’t actually care about being in powers of 2^10 or anything, it’s only the controllers that do, but not the storage medium. You’re mixing up the different possibilities to fill your storage with (which is 2^(number of bits)).
Looking at triple layer cell SSDs, how would you ever reach a 2^10, a 2^20 or 2^30 capacity when each physical cell represents three bits? You could only do multiples of three. So you can do three gibibytes, but that’s just as arbitrary as any other configuration.