I find 2GB/s Download speeds somewhat pointless

[Blaze-Senpai]

Say you're downloading a movie to your Hard Drive at that speed, Hard Drives can't write that fast anyway, so what would be the purpose?

Just a random thought I had in computer networking today, not much else in it.

[ncba93ivyase]

Your hard drive can't, but I'm sure it's useful for businesses or something.

[Blaze-Senpai]

Your hard drive can't, but I'm sure it's useful for businesses or something.

Probably writing to maybe 3 or 4 at once yeah.

[Daddy]

Flash memory is the future.  Soon there will be no more harddrives, and we will be using internal flash drives.  They are much faster, lack moving parts so they won't break down, and have other benefits.

[Blaze-Senpai]

Flash memory is the future.  Soon there will be no more harddrives, and we will be using internal flash drives.  They are much faster, lack moving parts so they won't break down, and have other benefits.

Flash Cards have slower Write speeds

[ncba93ivyase]

Flash memory is the future.  Soon there will be no more harddrives, and we will be using internal flash drives.  They are much faster, lack moving parts so they won't break down, and have other benefits.

I've had a flash drive short out. They're not perfect either. It's going to be a long time before flash memory can really be considered "perfected" and able to replace hard drives.

[Daddy]

Flash Cards have slower Write speeds

Not flash cards

[Blaze-Senpai]

Not flash cards

Maybe I read it wrong...

[Kingoftherings]

It writes it to RAM, then it writes to the hard drive.  At least I think thats how it works.   

I dunno, my friend gets like ridiculous 5mb/s downloads, and I'm stuck with barely reaching 150kb/s. 

[Blaze-Senpai]

It writes it to RAM, then it writes to the hard drive.  At least I think thats how it works.  

I dunno, my friend gets like ridiculous 5mb/s downloads, and I'm stuck with barely reaching 150kb/s. 

AT this rate, we won't have enough RAM to keep up with download speeds..

Or not.

[Daddy]

Oh, I just remembered too. 2Gb/s is two Gigabits per second, which comes out to be 250 Megabytes per second, SATA and PCI harddives can handle that.

[Blaze-Senpai]

Oh, I just remembered too. 2Gb/s is two Gigabits per second, which comes out to be 250 Megabytes per second, SATA and PCI harddives can handle that.

I didn't say Gb, I said GB, capital B, meaning bytes, not bits.

[Daddy]

I didn't say Gb, I said GB, capital B, meaning bytes, not bits.

Do you have a link to the article?   16Gb/s is something that I've never heard of.

[Kingoftherings]

I didn't say Gb, I said GB, capital B, meaning bytes, not bits.

It would be GiB for Gigabit.

Oh, I just remembered too. 2Gb/s is two Gigabits per second, which comes out to be 250 Megabytes per second, SATA and PCI harddives can handle that.

PCI is only like 33mb/s.   

[Feynman]

You're worrying about this right now? Shut up and just enjoy your current connection.