Solid-State Drive Question

[perditio44]

After doing some research on SSD's, I still have not figured out one thing:

Why are Solid-State Drives in a Base 2 capacity (16GB/32GB/64GB/128GB etc.) instead of the Base 10 capacity (120GB/300GB/750GB etc.) that manufacturers usually label HDD's with? Are they trying to avoid the confusion of the "missing space" or is there another reason?

P.S.
Also, it would be nice if you could do a show on coming trends and technologies in PC hardware (DDR3, new Intel architecture (Nehalem), SSD's, USB 3.0, etc.).

[davmoo]

Since I don't work for a company that makes the drives, I can only take a guess. But I'd say its because even though it may be called a "solid state drive", it is in effect just off the shelf memory chips, and memory has always been base-2 and in fact is physically made that way.

[burkhartmj]

Since I don't work for a company that makes the drives, I can only take a guess. But I'd say its because even though it may be called a "solid state drive", it is in effect just off the shelf memory chips, and memory has always been base-2 and in fact is physically made that way.

Agreed. From my understanding, they are the same type of chips as you'd find in a flash drive, just much higher quality in order to allow for fast read/write times. That also explains the price jump between a 16GB SSD vs a flash drive or maybe even SDHC cards by now.