[G4] Drives?

[keith_w]

Doug Burton wrote:
> 
> On Jan 31, 2008, at 1:03 PM, John Niven wrote:
> 
>> Doug,
>>
>> you didn't answer the question. So explain to us why
>> you think 1.5Gb/s is the same as 150Mb/s ?
>>
>> Since the industry chooses to specify SATA drives that
>> way, I thought it would less confussing to use the
>> marketing terms you see on the package.
>>
>> John


> It's not the same and I never said it was.  Here is the original quote 
> from YOUR post.
> 
> --------
> The analogy: parallel ATA hose uses a wide, low
> pressure pipe to fill a bucket, whereas serial ATA
> uses a thin pipe but running at a very high pressure
> to push the same, or more, water through in a given
> time.
> 
> ATA133 = 133Mbytes per second.
> SATA = 1.5Gbits per second.
> 
> I believe these two are comparable in throughput.

I don't. If a byte still contains 8 bits, 1.5 Gbits equal 1.064 Gbytes.

Seems there's a confusion here, in MB vs. Mb, and so on.

Seems to me MB = Megabytes, while Mb = megabits.

keith whaley