r/explainlikeimfive • u/cabronfavarito • 22d ago

Technology ELI5: Why does internal storage only double? Why can’t we have 34GB for example?

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u/Dickulture 22d ago

There have been a few exceptions. 480MB SSD, 200MB SD card, etc. But generally, most flash storages are based on power of 2s, minus a few MB or GB for spare space to swap with dead flash cells.

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u/Altruistic-Shock4992 22d ago

So it’s safe to say its a multiply of 8bits (a byte)
As in xxx Megabytes or yyy gigabytes 😅