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Re:Mars to Earth at an average of 29 kbits/s by ChuckMcM on Friday August 10, 2012 @07:10PM (#4368767)
Typically bytes are coded 8N1 (or 1 start bit, one stop bit, and 8 data bits) so 10 baud gets you 1 byte. Hence the nominal divide by 10 (this is 8b/10b encoding)

But in a pedantic sort of way, the computation should add extra bits for ECC since the drive has ECC bits already embedded in it, so a 1TB drive probably has more than 10 Tbits it is probably closer to 15 - 20 terabits.

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