Hi,
WD tech support is wrong. Ultra-ATA/66 is definitely 66 megabytes per second.
Not 66 megabits. There is ABSOLUTELY NO QUESTION about this.
Regards,
Bill Ellis
D. Carlos Knowlton wrote:
> Alright, what's going on guys?!
>
> I called Western Digital technical support to find out what I need to do to
> get my U-ATA/66 drives to transfer anything near 66MB/s, (Mega"bytes", note
> the capital 'B')like all the literature and advertising and even the news
> groups are boasting. They corrected me, and said that it is 66Mb/s
> (Mega"bits", as in 1/8th as fast.)
>
> Was I alone in the thinking that the naming convention of "'B' means bytes"
> and "'b' means bits" was universal?
>
> (Okay, maybe I am naive =)
>
> -ck
