army5
join:2002-04-30
Oklahoma City, OK
| reply to Gbcue
Re: Where's the fibre?
Don't get Megabits (Mb) confused with Megabytes (MB). For example, common DSL downloads are 1.5 Mbps (Megabits/sec) where common data transfer rates for HD's are 133 MB/sec (Megabytes/sec). A Megabit is 1 million bits. A Megabyte is 1 million bytes. 8 bits = 1 byte. As you can see there is a huge difference.
Jeff
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Freezone
join:2000-09-29
Southfield, MI | HD's can not tranfers anywhere near their interface specs. Except burst to and from the buffers. With a 100Mb connection, who needs a hd anyway? Just get everything realtime  |
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army5
join:2002-04-30
Oklahoma City, OK
|  I'm not sure what your point is. I was trying to explain that MB does not equal Mb. I wasn't getting into the technical specs of HD's. Rather I was using common numbers used in the industry as performance marks (i.e. ATA 100/133) as a reference to my explanation.
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