ide cables...

[machow]

i'm not a university studuent and don't know anything about those electrical stuff but... i'm wondering why hdd cables need to be 40 and even 80 cables wide... when firewire and usb and even 1000base-TX are using FAR less cables... is there a reason for this?

yeah i think i might ask random questions... but that's me

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[lhgpoobaa]

just cauz allright!

traditional.

whats a PC without long floppy cables in it?

just an electrically powered box.


if you dont like em you can get spliced and bundeled IDE cabes.

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[FatBurger]

It's individual wires, not separate cables. And besides, USB is only 10MB/s, whereas IDE is 100 times that.



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[machow]

yeah yeah wires cables you get me. but then gigabit ethernet has data rate of 125MB/s using 8 wires, over 100m of length, whereas ATA cables use EIGHTY wires to transfer theoretical speeds of 100MB/s (or maybe 133 soon) over like 20 inches max. that's how i see it...

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[CALV]

bits/bytes, megaBITS megaBYTES


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[Lars_Coleman]

MB = Megabytes
Mb = Megabits

USB is 12Mb/sec <A HREF="http://www.usbworkshop.com/usb1.1/" target="_new"> USB </A>
1394/FireWire is 400Mb/sec
1394b is 3200Mb/sec
USB 2.0 is 480Mb/sec <A HREF="http://www.usbworkshop.com/usb2/" target="_new"> USB 2.0 </A>

Those are all Megabit transfer rates.

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[machow]

Gigabit Ethernet is 1000MBits per sec, which means it's 1000/8 MBytes per sec, which means it's 125 MBytes per sec, using 8 wires. I'm not wrong. If that's what you meant.

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[machow]

Also MB = MegaBytes, Mb = Megabits

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[Lars_Coleman]

I don't think my post said you were wrong. Was it in reply to yours?

If I thought you were wrong I would have said so ...

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[machow]

no your post wasn't in reply to mine... and my posts wasn't for you too.

<<I Come And Go All The Time>><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by machow on 08/21/01 11:43 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[Lars_Coleman]

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[FatBurger]

Anyways...the wires in Ethernet cable are thicker than in ID cable. It also depends heavily on how strong the electrical current is.



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