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Hz refers to the number of cycles per second. Everybody uses this as the effective transfer clock, but hey, everybody is wrong. It's correct to use MT/sec inst
by pslam 13y ago
Hz refers to the number of cycles per second. Everybody uses this as the effective transfer clock, but hey, everybody is wrong.
It's correct to use MT/sec instead, but you're right that it's being pedantic and it's unlikely to confuse anyone who really did care. On the other hand, it does stink of specmanship to quote the doubled frequency. I would have hoped a Pro spec machine would rise above that kind of thing.
- sliverstorm 13y agoThe doubled frequency is just the way the market works. It is actually kind of nice when you are trying to compare sticks that are double sided vs. sticks that are single sided and actually run at the listed frequency.
- mehrdada 13y agoHz is just 1/sec. If you want to be technically correct, don't add any implicit meaning to it. Frequency is the rate of something happening per unit of time. That "something" can be "number of data transfers" or "number of clock cycles" or "number of times a ball hits the floor". The frequency of all of those can be measured in Hz. You should be clear about what quantity you're measuring, but the unit is Hertz nevertheless. (And MT/sec is really "some unit-less quantity/sec", so it can be accurately called MHz.)