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SCSI vs IDE Drive Sizes...
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Nov 18, 2001, 06:33 PM
 
I was wondering the other day...
Why is it IDE drives come in multiples of 10,
10 GB, 20 GB, 40 GB, 100 GB
And SCSI drives come in multiples of 9?
9 GB, 18 GB, 36 GB, 72 GB

Why is that?
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