On Friday 28 September 2007, John Wendel wrote: > Lamar Owen wrote: > > Due to the 8B/10B coding used in SATA, you can divide the bitrate by ten > > and not eight to get the byterate. Thus, 3Gb/s is 300MB/s at the wire. > Your talking about the wire speed. The REAL speed is determined by the > disk drive. You're lucky to get 75MB/s with a desktop drive. I did say "at the wire" above. -- Lamar Owen Chief Information Officer Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu
