Stephen Gran on 27 Mar 2008 08:45:51 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Disk Transfer Speeds


On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:40:36AM -0400, PaulNM said:
> Not to be pedantic, but it's actually 100Mbit/sec = 11.920929 
> MBytes/sec.

Not to be even more pedantic, but it's not 10**8, it's 100 * 1024 * 1024.
Unless you're a hard drive manufacturer, of course.

> Bits are decimal while bytes are binary.

Um, no.  Bits are binary, bytes are 8 bits.
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