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Mio flow conversion?

warrant -  
Hello,
I searched the forum but didn't find what I'm looking for.
How many kbps does 6.5 MiB/s correspond to (I'm specifying it's MiB)?
Thank you

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6 answers

  1.  Cooyoo
    There is not a huge difference between the two. (Purists will say there is...)
    In fact, one is calculated in powers of 2 and the other in powers of 10.
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    1. Pierrecastor Moderator
      When you start talking terabytes or even gigabytes, yes, I assure you that makes a hell of a difference.
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    2. Cooyoo
      And here we go... a purist... lol
      Bring that back to % and it doesn't change much...
      On the other hand, it's true that if it were in Euros on my salary, it would be different... lol
      That said, machines only understand binary... so for me it will always be:
      1 kB = 1024 B and 1 kbit = 1024 bits...
      Not to be confused with kB (for the uninitiated) => 1 kB = 1 kB (B for byte in English, byte = octet) => the trick of ISPs to make us dream with the speeds... (they talk to us about mbits/s so that we understand MB/s...)
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    3. Pierrecastor Moderator
      Meh, a 1TB hard drive will actually only provide about 930GiB, which makes a difference. 7% is not insignificant.

      Furthermore, outside of Windows, all OSes clearly distinguish between kB and KiB.

      And to play the purist to the end, a Byte does not mean octet; it is the smallest addressable unit. It turns out that on a PC, a byte is almost always 8 bits, but that’s not necessarily the case. ;-)
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    4. Cooyoo
      Coooooool.......... A real purist like we don't make anymore!!!!!!!! lol
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    5. Pierrecastor Moderator
      Not a purist. Precise. Computing is a world of precision and it's important to use the right terms to progress.

      Aren't you the one who wanted to get your site hacked?
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  3. warrant Author
    Thank you for your responses, but it's just that unlike the classic Mo, it is marked Mio, hence my question.
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    1. warrant Author
      Okay, thank you.
      So that should be around 6000 kb/s.
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      1. brupala
        no,
        it's the other way around:
        6.5 MiB represents 6.5x2 ^20 bytes or 6.5x1,048,576 or 6,815,744 bytes
        So 6.815 MB or 6815 KB
        Got it?
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    3. crocodile15
      Yes, you wrote 1Mio=1.048.576 while 1Mio=1.000.000 bytes; do not confuse Mio and Mo.
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      1. Cooyoo
        Well, actually no. According to the standard set in 1998 by the International Electrotechnical Commission, it's the opposite. See the wiki page => https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octet
        In fact, apparently we (including myself) all make the mistake...
        The standard defines that:
        1 kB = 1000 bytes (I know, it shocks me too... lol)
        1 KiB = 1024 bytes
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      2. brupala
        Why does it shock you that a kilogram is 1000, cooyoo?
        Let's note in passing that indicating a rate in binary units makes no sense on a serial link.
        It only has significance for memory sizes or anything organized in tables of sizes that are multiples of the powers of two.
        A serial stream is not related to the powers of two and no manufacturer indicates rates in MiB, because the number is less advantageous (with one MiB containing more data than one MB).
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    4. crocodile15
      It’s just a matter of nuance: 1Mio = 1 million bytes, that is to say based on a thousand and not 1024.
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      1. Cooyoo
        And did I write anything else?
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