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MAMR Mia! Western Digital's 18TB and 20TB microwave-energy hard drives out soon

dfsmith

Re: Contradiction

It's easy to remember:

Serial bit streams use 10^3.

Binary addressable bit tables use 2^10 (historically).

Hard drives are serial devices; like networking. DRAMs are binary addressable. Flash is weird, and getting weirder.

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