it makes sense if you think of SATA + PCI as a network interface (:
TIL 2.5" HDD manufacturers are quoting transfer rates in Mbits/sec instead of MB/sec. WTF. Who measures HDD performance in Mbits/sec?pic.twitter.com/ejBSNcrRk1
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Allow me to add a few more pixels and blow your mind. Yeah.pic.twitter.com/4DG8EaQDtl
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gotta have those dark marketing patterns
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Marketing took over and bigger numbers sound better :P There's a reason why everyone I know from Germany is talking about "50000 internet speed" and is actually talking about a 50MBit/s connection...
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gotta compete with those SSD speeds somehow!
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Speed has traditionally been measured in bits while capacity has traditionally been measured in bytes. Look at WAN circuits for the last decade. SCSI was the major exception.
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Yeah, no. This is just malicious marketing.https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1005071269430059009 …
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I mean, it makes sense. The bits are read in serial from the disk.
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long ago it was called "platter speed" or so... i don't remember why though :(
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