Hard Drive data rates
John Wendel
john.wendel at metnet.navy.mil
Fri Sep 28 20:30:20 UTC 2007
Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Friday 28 September 2007, John Wendel wrote:
>> Lamar Owen wrote:
>>> Due to the 8B/10B coding used in SATA, you can divide the bitrate by ten
>>> and not eight to get the byterate. Thus, 3Gb/s is 300MB/s at the wire.
>
>> Your talking about the wire speed. The REAL speed is determined by the
>> disk drive. You're lucky to get 75MB/s with a desktop drive.
>
> I did say "at the wire" above.
Indeed you did, and I wasn't questioning your analysis. Sorry! Just
thought I had something interesting to add. Astronomers rule! :)
Regards,
John
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