Re:Modern HDDs have gotten somewhat better
by mlyle on Saturday June 25, 2022 @03:40PM
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> But even so, the gigabyte sins of the hard drive makers are still less than half of those of the network card makers who used to advertise baud instead of bytes,
Actually, they generally specified bits per second, even if they called it "baud".
> so the fact that the data is going across as 5:4 encoding means that you divide the Kbps by 10 - not 8 - to get the actual throughput.
Stop bits and start bits. E.g. a 9600 bit per second v.32 MODEM operated at 2400 baud (2400 4 bit symbols per second), and had an end-user throughput of 960 characters per second.
Actually, they generally specified bits per second, even if they called it "baud".
> so the fact that the data is going across as 5:4 encoding means that you divide the Kbps by 10 - not 8 - to get the actual throughput.
Stop bits and start bits. E.g. a 9600 bit per second v.32 MODEM operated at 2400 baud (2400 4 bit symbols per second), and had an end-user throughput of 960 characters per second.