Western Digital is trying to redefine the word “RPM”

Re:Western Digital is trying to redefine the word “RPM” by gorgoiler on Monday September 07, 2020 @11:46PM (#24405033)

The ISP is also in the best position to publish the p50, p90 and p99 speeds their customers reach. But why bother, when they can feign ignorance and just talk about what the boffins in the Science Lab say it should be.

Perhaps, with tongue in cheek, we could call this the p0 speed — as in it doesn’t make sense and it’s guaranteed that 0% of customers achieve it.

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Re:Western Digital is trying to redefine the word “RPM” by dirkt on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @01:36AM (#24405489)

Percentiles are not helpful, because at least in my home country what degrades the maximum potential speed is the influence that parallel copper cables have on each other. So my internet speed depends on how much my neighbours are using the internet.

It's really really difficult to predict this statistically.

OTOH, there's a guaranteed minimum speed the ISP has to deliver.

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Re:Western Digital is trying to redefine the word “RPM” by gorgoiler on Thursday September 10, 2020 @10:19PM (#24438551)

This is really interesting, thank you. Do you have a link to some good info on the phenomenon?

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