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even spinning rust should be able to handle ~700 MBit. an SSD is generally on the order of 3 gigabits - even cheap ones can manage 300megabytes per second, whic
by genewitch 1y ago
even spinning rust should be able to handle ~700 MBit. an SSD is generally on the order of 3 gigabits - even cheap ones can manage 300megabytes per second, which is on the order of 3Gb/s.
- db48x 1y agoSure, but remember that the disk bandwidth is the _uncompressed_ data. By definition it’ll be at least 2× larger than the compressed data you downloaded, if not more. Steam downloads are commonly disk or cpu limited on 1Gbps connections.
- genewitch 1y agoi'll concede you're probably right. In the late 1990s i had a Promise ATA 100mbit IDE card, and i swore that someday, i would have an IDE connection to the internet. Now, my CPE is called a terminal, but it's some proprietary cable from the terminal to the router. And my upstream isn't quite 100mbit (on starlink; it's about 40-50. On at&t 4g LTE it was 30-65mbit/s upstream). so i'm still not at IDE speeds, yet. maybe on my cellphone in the metro i get that speed, though...
- db48x 1y agoIt is really ridiculous how fast our connections are these days, when you stop and actually think about it. Also pretty ridiculous how slow they used to be!