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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (6 children)

I wonder why they're not using TB/s like 14.9TB/s

Edit: GB/s

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Because those are megabytes, not gigabytes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Oh good point. 14.9GB/s

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

probably a holdover from the sata days, or simply because it's nice to show the number doubling into tens of thousands

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Assuming you meant GB/s, not TB/s, I think it's for the sake of convenience when doing comparisons - there are still SATA SSDs around and in terms of sequential reads and writes those top out at what the interface allows, i.e. 500-550 MB/s.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah, i meant GB/s. Thanks for pointing that out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Because bigger number better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

That's basically how all storage speeds are handled. HDDs are around 300MB/s, current NVMEs are around 7000MB/s, etc. Keep everything in the same scale for easier comparison.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 days ago

So computer illiterate don’t think it’s a smaller number