Re: I am beginning to get very annoyed and frustrated with ASRock.
That is only valid if the range is rigidly specified to start with. It hasn't been. Similarly, you could complain there's no extreme 5, 7, etc?
I don't know why they've done this, but I'm guessing marketing reasons may be involved. For memory it's a bit different because memory bank sizes have to be a power of two, but there's no such direct mapping for harddrives so they can get away with a base 10 number instead. It's not going to change however. Why? Because the average user doesn't understand, doesn't have an interest in understanding, and thus doesn't care. My mom doesn't care what's in her computer, she doesn't care how it works, she just cares that it works. Plus such a change would require every storage manufacturer to change their numbers or there would be competitive advantages to those who didn't, every (web)shop to follow with product information updates ... good luck with that!
Also, another factor might be that most people just wouldn't be able to guess how much data they'd be able to store on their drive to start with anyway, it's too abstract. In the end it doesn't really matter.
Originally posted by FalloutBoy
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Originally posted by FalloutBoy
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Also, another factor might be that most people just wouldn't be able to guess how much data they'd be able to store on their drive to start with anyway, it's too abstract. In the end it doesn't really matter.
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