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| kdstibitz1 2002-08-27, 11:22 am |
| hi folks
Here is a question that is making my head ache. What is the difference between Mb/s and MB/s. I have done a major search and all I can find out is that the terms are often used interchangebly. It is bogging me down when I am studying about throughput of various devices. If 8 bits= 1Byte shouldn't there be a huge difference between MB and Mb?
thanks in advance.
kevin | |
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| twister166 2002-08-27, 1:50 pm |
| Mb = M bits, MB = M Bytes... the problem is that often in type setting, people mess it up... there was a tread talking about this couple days ago, you may want to look it up... | |
| gr33nd4yg1rl 2002-08-28, 1:14 am |
| excellent link, dennis. thank you. | |
| kdstibitz1 2002-08-28, 8:05 am |
| Thanks denis,
that is a great reference site and it confirms my caculation that 1 MB =~ 8 Mb and conversely 1 Mb =~ .125 MB (although it seems many people in the industry use a factor of 10 or 1/10 for easy conversion).
And thanks Twister on the typesetting info. That is the reason for my confusion because every text I have seems to mix them up at some point.
Now, Is throughput always denoted in Mb/s? and if I see MB/s can I safely assume a typo ? |
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