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http://www.vnunet.com/2152827

"The first generation drive has a capacity of 300GB on a single disk with
a 20Mbps transfer rate. The first product will be followed by a family
ranging from 800GB to 1.6TB capacity."


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Have A Nice Cup of Tea wrote:
> http://www.vnunet.com/2152827
>
> "The first generation drive has a capacity of 300GB on a single disk with
> a 20Mbps transfer rate. The first product will be followed by a family
> ranging from 800GB to 1.6TB capacity."
>
>
> Have A Nice Cup of Tea
>

Do you think they got their megabytes and megabits, with regard to
transfer speed, mixed up there?

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 19:57:03 +1200, k wrote:

> Have A Nice Cup of Tea wrote:
>> http://www.vnunet.com/2152827
>>
>> "The first generation drive has a capacity of 300GB on a single disk with
>> a 20Mbps transfer rate. The first product will be followed by a family
>> ranging from 800GB to 1.6TB capacity."
>
> Do you think they got their megabytes and megabits, with regard to
> transfer speed, mixed up there?

I wouldn't think so.

Transmission of data is usually measured in bits rather than bytes, is it
not?

And with increasing use of network storage, my guess is that's where they
see their product most effectively used, at least initially.


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Have A Nice Cup of Tea <> wrote in
news:

> http://www.vnunet.com/2152827
>
> "The first generation drive has a capacity of 300GB on a single disk with
> a 20Mbps transfer rate. The first product will be followed by a family
> ranging from 800GB to 1.6TB capacity."

Wow! That's incredibly slow! That's like a 2.4x DVD writing speed I
think. It would take about 33 hours to write 300GB.



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Have A Nice Cup of Tea wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 19:57:03 +1200, k wrote:
>
>> Have A Nice Cup of Tea wrote:
>>> http://www.vnunet.com/2152827
>>>
>>> "The first generation drive has a capacity of 300GB on a single disk with
>>> a 20Mbps transfer rate. The first product will be followed by a family
>>> ranging from 800GB to 1.6TB capacity."
>> Do you think they got their megabytes and megabits, with regard to
>> transfer speed, mixed up there?
>
> I wouldn't think so.
>
> Transmission of data is usually measured in bits rather than bytes, is it
> not?
>
> And with increasing use of network storage, my guess is that's where they
> see their product most effectively used, at least initially.
>
>
> Have A Nice Cup of Tea
>

Its not in bits per second with hard drives at least.

Have A Nice Cup of Tea wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 19:57:03 +1200, k wrote:
>
>> Have A Nice Cup of Tea wrote:
>>> http://www.vnunet.com/2152827
>>>
>>> "The first generation drive has a capacity of 300GB on a single disk with
>>> a 20Mbps transfer rate. The first product will be followed by a family
>>> ranging from 800GB to 1.6TB capacity."
>> Do you think they got their megabytes and megabits, with regard to
>> transfer speed, mixed up there?
>
> I wouldn't think so.
>
> Transmission of data is usually measured in bits rather than bytes, is it
> not?
>
> And with increasing use of network storage, my guess is that's where they
> see their product most effectively used, at least initially.
>
>
> Have A Nice Cup of Tea
>

I guess you are not familiar with the real world practicalities of
having a storage device operate at 20Mbps

k wrote:
> Have A Nice Cup of Tea wrote:
>
>> http://www.vnunet.com/2152827
>>
>> "The first generation drive has a capacity of 300GB on a single disk with
>> a 20Mbps transfer rate. The first product will be followed by a family
>> ranging from 800GB to 1.6TB capacity."
>>
>>
>> Have A Nice Cup of Tea
>>
>
> Do you think they got their megabytes and megabits, with regard to
> transfer speed, mixed up there?

There is some mix up, the title of the article reads (like the header of
this thread) .5TB per square inch, but the article claims a density of
515Gb per square inch. As the drive has a capacity of 300GB, the 515Gb
per square inch figure must be right, unless the platters are extremely
tiny.

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 21:30:15 +1200, David wrote:

> Its not in bits per second with hard drives at least.

And storage on HDDs is not measured in megabytes (1024) either.


Have A Nice Cup of Tea

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1/ Migration to Linux only costs money once. Higher Windows TCO is forever.
2/ "Shared source" is a poison pill. Open Source is freedom.
3/ Only the Windows boxes get the worms.

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 21:53:26 +1200, k wrote:

> I guess you are not familiar with the real world practicalities of
> having a storage device operate at 20Mbps

Well it might take a wee while to transfer a few 1 gig vob files.


Have A Nice Cup of Tea

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2/ "Shared source" is a poison pill. Open Source is freedom.
3/ Only the Windows boxes get the worms.

"Have A Nice Cup of Tea" <> wrote in message
news...
> http://www.vnunet.com/2152827
>
> "The first generation drive has a capacity of 300GB on a single disk with
> a 20Mbps transfer rate. The first product will be followed by a family
> ranging from 800GB to 1.6TB capacity."
>
>
> Have A Nice Cup of Tea
>
> --
> 1/ Migration to Linux only costs money once. Higher Windows TCO is
> forever.
> 2/ "Shared source" is a poison pill. Open Source is freedom.
> 3/ Only the Windows boxes get the worms.
>

cool, does dick smiths sell it ?