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The linked article states 100 Gb/s, i.e. gigabits per second. But the post title says "100GB/s" which suggests gigabytes per second. Worth correcting, because getting 100GB/s between two machines in the same rack would be quite an achievement today.



And also, this being a tech oriented start up targeted discussion site, it would be important to get the basic units of internet service correct in the titles.


I used to resist the KiB/MiB/GiB nomenclature. But after seeing this problem everywhere, I've changed my mind.


I think in this case the issue isn't binary prefixes vs decimal which in this case would amount to a ~7% error, but rather bits vs bytes which is an error of ~800%


Yes, I'm not sure the parent realizes KiB (kibibyte) is different than Kb (kilobit): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte


error of 700%, technically


How does that solve anything? I still don't know if you meant KiB = kilobit or kilobyte.


As others have pointed out it's the difference between bits and bytes. But "among bytes" units, I prefer the base-2 SI units (KiB/MiB/GiB) because as written, they're unambiguous.


You're not wrong...

but the convention that network connections are rated in bits per second is very strong, and largely solves this sort of confusion


it is a big mistake but either way it is very fast...




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