that are powers of two. The capacity of a disk drive is the product of the sector size, number of sectors per track, number of tracks per side, and the number of disk platters in the drive. Changes in any of these factors would not usually double the size.

Examples of use

Depending on compression methods and file format, a megabyte of data can roughly be:
* a 1megapixel bitmap image (e.g. ~1152 × 864)

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