On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, 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.)
My experience with WD tech support leads me to believe they hire trained
monkeys for that role.
> Was I alone in the thinking that the naming convention of "'B' means bytes"
> and "'b' means bits" was universal?
This irritates me too--people complain that they're only getting X mb/sec
from their super hot new drive that's supposed be much faster. I want to
smack them upside the head and tell them that they're lucky their computer
even runs at all with a drive that transfers data so slowly that they had
to measure it in millibits (mb) per second.
:-)
Mike
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