Reply to post: Re: Let's get rid of this 1 GB = 1024 x 1024 x 1024 nonsense too then

Non-binary DDR5 is finally coming to save your wallet

Tom66

Re: Let's get rid of this 1 GB = 1024 x 1024 x 1024 nonsense too then

Hard nope on that. Memory is addressed in powers of two so sizes should be powers of two.

There's no such requirement for flash or HDDs which have specifically lossy medium with error correction and sector reallocation which means address space no longer corresponds to size.

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