Comments on: What’s the Diff: Megabits and Megabytes https://www.backblaze.com/blog/megabits-vs-megabytes/ Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup Fri, 19 May 2023 21:08:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: jp https://www.backblaze.com/blog/megabits-vs-megabytes/#comment-312721 Sat, 03 Sep 2016 15:12:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=65471#comment-312721 wait you guys actually do the 1000 times. i guess it makes sense as you guys deal with hdd and there marketing team uses it but each is 1024 times the size before it in practice for almost everything but data storage

]]> By: wmbb https://www.backblaze.com/blog/megabits-vs-megabytes/#comment-312521 Tue, 30 Aug 2016 09:34:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=65471#comment-312521 Hello Peter,
Here is a suggestion : one thing that Backblaze could do is add a way for Windows users to get the same storage measure that Windows displays in the folder properties and the size that Backblaze displays.
Backblaze uses “MB basis 1000” for computing file and folder sizes. Windows doesn’t (I know they are wrong, but I don’t care in this case!). So anyway these differences are causing much headaches for your Windows customers when this could easily be solved by you (you can display automatically both measures) !
Thanks in advance ;)

]]> By: Peter Cohen https://www.backblaze.com/blog/megabits-vs-megabytes/#comment-312301 Tue, 23 Aug 2016 11:43:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=65471#comment-312301 In reply to GlueFactoryBJJ.

Surely! A bit different than raw transmission rate, which is the reason behind bandwidth’s measurement in bits, but something a lot of folks – including IT pros – forget about when they try to calculate transfer speeds.

]]> By: GlueFactoryBJJ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/megabits-vs-megabytes/#comment-312261 Mon, 22 Aug 2016 23:14:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=65471#comment-312261 Another issue with data transfer rates is, to one degree or another, the issue of parity and address/transmission headers. Since data transfers include parity bits (often on a per byte basis) and checksums in many protocols, in addition to the addressing headers, your real world DATA transfers (actual bytes of storage) are frequently <1/10 of the Mbps rating. So if you have a 100Mbps (100 megaBITS/sec) connection, then you will probably average something less than 10MBps (10 megaBYTES/sec) of actual data transfer rate… as a general rule of thumb. Anything above that is just gravy.

]]> By: Peter Cohen https://www.backblaze.com/blog/megabits-vs-megabytes/#comment-312201 Sat, 20 Aug 2016 16:28:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=65471#comment-312201 In reply to HDDmag Admin.

Thanks!

]]> By: SteveBlowJobsSucksDickInHell https://www.backblaze.com/blog/megabits-vs-megabytes/#comment-312191 Sat, 20 Aug 2016 05:31:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=65471#comment-312191 crApple loving hipster douche. Backblaze was better when you weren’t here.

]]> By: HDDmag Admin https://www.backblaze.com/blog/megabits-vs-megabytes/#comment-312161 Fri, 19 Aug 2016 20:05:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=65471#comment-312161 A topic that causes a lot of confusion among non-techy people
Nicely explained. :)

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