On 24/12/2006, at 12:35 AM, Martin Hill wrote:
However, you do also have the exceptions where data transfer speeds
of storage devices are sometimes described using either bits or
bytes such as the speed of CD-ROMs being described in bits per
second (eg 1x CD-ROM = 150Kbps) while hard disk transfer rates are
sometimes described in bytes per second (eg. 20MB/s) just to
confuse everyone.
:-(
Actually CD-ROM transfer rates are described in KB/sec. A single
speed CD-ROM drive is roughly 150KB/sec. A 16-bit, 44.1KHz PCM stream
wouldn't fit into 150 kilobits per second.
Mal
