Hard Drive data rates

[Karl Larsen]

    I was lead to mis-understand the data rate of my new SATA hard 
drive. It indicated that the data rate was 3 GB/sec. But some checking 
with Google said the Hard Drive makers are very free with their units. 
To be specific a SATA drive is 3000 MegaBits/second. This boils down to 
about 375 MB.

    The old standard IDE parallel 40 pin plug is rated for a rate of 112 
MB at the fastest to 78 GB at the slowest part of the platter. So in my 
case I will not see a huge change moving to my SATA hard drive. I will 
stay here on the new IDE much longer.


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
	Linux User
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