Hard Drive data rates

[John Wendel]

Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Friday 28 September 2007, John Wendel wrote:
>> Lamar Owen wrote:
>>> Due to the 8B/10B coding used in SATA, you can divide the bitrate by ten
>>> and not eight to get the byterate.  Thus, 3Gb/s is 300MB/s at the wire.
> 
>> Your talking about the wire speed. The REAL speed is determined by the
>> disk drive. You're lucky to get 75MB/s with a desktop drive.
> 
> I did say "at the wire" above.

Indeed you did, and I wasn't questioning your analysis. Sorry! Just 
thought I had something interesting to add. Astronomers rule! :)

Regards,

John