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The linked article states 100 Gb/s, i.e. gigabits per second. But the post title says "100GB/s" which suggests gigabytes per second. Worth correcting, because
by dpw 11y ago
The linked article states 100 Gb/s, i.e. gigabits per second. But the post title says "100GB/s" which suggests gigabytes per second. Worth correcting, because getting 100GB/s between two machines in the same rack would be quite an achievement today.
- barkingcat 11y agoAnd also, this being a tech oriented start up targeted discussion site, it would be important to get the basic units of internet service correct in the titles.
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- benjarrell 11y agoI used to resist the KiB/MiB/GiB nomenclature. But after seeing this problem everywhere, I've changed my mind.
- zaphoyd 11y agoI think in this case the issue isn't binary prefixes vs decimal which in this case would amount to a ~7% error, but rather bits vs bytes which is an error of ~800%
- imaginenore 11y agoHow does that solve anything? I still don't know if you meant KiB = kilobit or kilobyte.
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- wyldfire 11y agoAs others have pointed out it's the difference between bits and bytes. But "among bytes" units, I prefer the base-2 SI units (KiB/MiB/GiB) because as written, they're unambiguous.
- lsc 11y agoYou're not wrong... but the convention that network connections are rated in bits per second is very strong, and largely solves this sort of confusion
- privacy101 11y agoit is a big mistake but either way it is very fast...