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I Just don't know the mechanism that HDDs work with fiber downloads

As far as I remember fiber downloads can reach 700 MB/sec, while HDD write speed is about 40 or 80 MB/sec-I don't remember actually- So how does it work ?? Does fiber download only work on ssds to get full speed or what :/

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You know, I've always wondered this.

 

My guess is the extra information gets stored in the RAM or something like that?

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you talk about FTTH? then remember... 700 Mb/s = 87,5 MB/s...

Also part of the data if there's not enough disk bandwidth is stored in RAM or download speed is throttled (by storage bottleneck)

Well that explains alot :D

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Title got me confused lol; "hdd speed and HDD speed". 

Good question, actually never thought of that. But this also makes me cry a bit because I can only dream of a 700MB/s download speed. 

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As far as I remember fiber downloads can reach 700 mb/sec, while HDD write speed is about 40 or 80 mb/sec.

 

I can't really give you a good answer about how the HDDs handle fiber speeds, but I am pretty sure that fiber can go a lot higher than 700 mb/sec... Isn't Google Fiber both fiber and capable of download/upload speeds of 1 Gb/sec (1000 mb/sec) and in Japan they have some ISPs with twice that?

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Downloads are usually cached in RAM before it reaches the hard drive.

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Title got me confused lol; "hdd speed and HDD speed". 

Good question, actually never thought of that. But this also makes me cry a bit because I can only dream of a 700MB/s download speed. 

 

Don't worry. 5.6Gbps would probably require you to update your LAN adapter at any rate :P

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Title got me confused lol; "hdd speed and HDD speed".

Good question, actually never thought of that. But this also makes me cry a bit because I can only dream of a 700MB/s download speed.

Gonna fix the title :D I wish I could even dream of 700MB/sec download speed :3

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Title got me confused lol; "hdd speed and HDD speed". 

Good question, actually never thought of that. But this also makes me cry a bit because I can only dream of a 700MB/s download speed. 

I think he meant to say 700 mbps, not 700 MB/s. Because even Google Fiber is only ~250 MB/s (1,000 mbps).

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Gonna fix the title :D I wish I could even dream of 700MB/sec download speed :3

700MB/s + unlimited data usage = DOWNLOAD THE INTERNET

 

I think he meant to say 700 mbps, not 700 MB/s. Because even Google Fiber is only ~250 MB/s (1,000 mbps).

Makes more sense lol, though, we needs the 5TB/s laser thingos now lol. 

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I think he meant to say 700 mbps, not 700 MB/s. Because even Google Fiber is only ~250 MB/s (1,000 mbps).

Since you mentioned it what are the differences :D

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Since you mentioned it what are the differences :D

Internet Service Providers use "mbps" (megabits per second) instead of "MB/s" (megabytes per second) because megabits is a smaller unit. We're all pretty much used to reading in megabytes and not megabits, so ISPs like to use megabits instead because it appears faster than megabytes, since megabits is a smaller unit. 1 gigabit per second, sounds like a lot right? But it's actually only around ~250 megabytes per second (250 megabytes per second is still deadly fast). If you were a company, which would you use to advertise. :)

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Internet Service Providers use "mbps" (megabits per second) instead of "MB/s" (megabytes per second) because megabits is a smaller unit. We're all pretty much used to reading in megabytes and not megabits, so ISPs like to use megabits instead because it appears faster than megabytes, since megabits is a smaller unit. 1 gigabit per second, sounds like a lot right? But it's actually only around ~250 megabytes per second (250 megabytes per second is still deadly fast). If you were a company, which would you use to advertise. :)

[Happy to know :D ]

And those companies inspite of providing slow Internet speed (120 kilobyte/sec) they do use a divergence name for advertisement :@

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Internet Service Providers use "mbps" (megabits per second) instead of "MB/s" (megabytes per second) because megabits is a smaller unit. We're all pretty much used to reading in megabytes and not megabits, so ISPs like to use megabits instead because it appears faster than megabytes, since megabits is a smaller unit. 1 gigabit per second, sounds like a lot right? But it's actually only around ~250 megabytes per second (250 megabytes per second is still deadly fast). If you were a company, which would you use to advertise. :)

1 byte is 8 bits. 1000 Gbps = 125 MBps.

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1 byte is 8 bits. 1000 Gbps = 125 MBps.

Yea I know, I just for some reason thought I remembered 1gbps was 256 mbps

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