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Thursday, April 24, 2003Bit by Bit, Row by Row / Someone Bless These Seeds I Sow
How fast can you copy 300GB?
Well, that depends. On an Ethernet network where all parties involved speak 100Base-T Full-Duplex, you may be able to push the theoretical maximum of 100 Mbps. Lucky are you if you have a 1000Base-?X network, and can aspire to one gigabit per second.
Let's pull out our bit calculator, shall we? This one here pretends like a byte is 8 bits, though I hear tell that some folks consider a byte to be 8.3 bits. Guess that third of a bit disappears in a rounding error.
300 gigabytes bits 2576980377600 bytes 322122547200 kilobits 2516582400 kilobytes 314572800 megabits 2457600 megabytes 307200 gigabits 2400 gigabytes 300
Now, let's convert those round numbers into time.
10:45:17 AM # Google It!
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