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A 2003 complaint about Half-Life (lemmy.world)
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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 month ago

The base 2 pattern for storage is a new thing with solid state. It just used to be a multiple what whatever they could fit reliably on a platter in a given form factor. As media got better and heads got smaller they just increased to roundish numbers.