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					<description><![CDATA[excellent intriguing article.

However there is one glaring issue:

In the passage:

SATA II is capable of running at 3.0 Gb/s which stands for 3 Gbits per second and NOT 3 GB (Gigabytes) per second.  It can get a bit confusing so lets suffice to say that SATA II is theoretically capable of a maximum speed of 300MB/s but, in reality, 285 MB/s seems to be the maximum as a result of hardware and sofware limitations.

It&#039;s not a result of &quot;hardware and sofware limitations&quot;, it&#039;s simple maths
300 Megabytes a second
300,000,000 bytes a second
is equal to:
286 Mebibytes a second
(1 Mebibyte = 1,048,576 bytes)
So the passage could be corrected by saying:

SATA II is capable of running at 3.0 Gb/s which stands for 3 Gbits per second and NOT 3 GB (Gigabytes) per second.  It can get a bit confusing so lets suffice to say that SATA II is theoretically capable of a maximum speed of 375MB/s (357 MiB/s) but, in reality, 300 MB/s (286 MiB/s) is the maximum after 8b/10b encoding.

References:
SATA 3Gb/s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sata#SATA_Revision_3.0_.28SATA_6_Gbit.2Fs.29
8/10 bit encoding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8b/10b_encoding
Mebibyte: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibyte]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>excellent intriguing article.</p>
<p>However there is one glaring issue:</p>
<p>In the passage:</p>
<p>SATA II is capable of running at 3.0 Gb/s which stands for 3 Gbits per second and NOT 3 GB (Gigabytes) per second.  It can get a bit confusing so lets suffice to say that SATA II is theoretically capable of a maximum speed of 300MB/s but, in reality, 285 MB/s seems to be the maximum as a result of hardware and sofware limitations.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not a result of &#8220;hardware and sofware limitations&#8221;, it&#8217;s simple maths<br />
300 Megabytes a second<br />
300,000,000 bytes a second<br />
is equal to:<br />
286 Mebibytes a second<br />
(1 Mebibyte = 1,048,576 bytes)<br />
So the passage could be corrected by saying:</p>
<p>SATA II is capable of running at 3.0 Gb/s which stands for 3 Gbits per second and NOT 3 GB (Gigabytes) per second.  It can get a bit confusing so lets suffice to say that SATA II is theoretically capable of a maximum speed of 375MB/s (357 MiB/s) but, in reality, 300 MB/s (286 MiB/s) is the maximum after 8b/10b encoding.</p>
<p>References:<br />
SATA 3Gb/s: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sata#SATA_Revision_3.0_.28SATA_6_Gbit.2Fs.29" rel="nofollow ugc">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sata#SATA_Revision_3.0_.28SATA_6_Gbit.2Fs.29</a><br />
8/10 bit encoding: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8b/10b_encoding" rel="nofollow ugc">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8b/10b_encoding</a><br />
Mebibyte: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibyte" rel="nofollow ugc">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibyte</a></p>
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