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Best Buy Hard Drive Data Transfer Speeds Misleading? Or Just a Simple Mistake in cApitaliZAtioN?
For a few days I have been researching hard drives. In due time I am doing to build a pretty cool new desktop for the purpose of storing all my data which seems to be scattered throughout my house on numerous difference devices. At any rate, I like to window shop Best Buy and then make purchases from other online sources to save money.
One thing I discovered, which I am curious if it was intended on being misleading, or just a simple accident is the technical specs posted on the hard drives listed for sale. Here's what I am talking about, and then maybe you can help me at least confirm what the specs should be. View the attached picture below:
The first hard drive is: Western Digital - Caviar Black 1TB Internal Serial ATA Hard Drive for Desktops. The specs read, "data transfer rates up to 3 Gbps". That is 3 gigabits per second. Also noted as 3 Gb/s.
Now, the drive below it is: Western Digital - Scorpio Blue 250GB Internal Serial ATA Hard Drive for Laptops. Don't worry about this one being for a laptop and the other being for a desktop, that part doesn't matter in what I am depicting. But notice this: The specs read, "1.5GB/sec data transfer rate". That is 3 gigabytes per second. My god, now that's a fast hard drive!!!
3 Gbps (3 Gb/s) = 384 megabytes per second.
1.5GB/s = 1536 megabytes per second!!!
The written technical specs on the second hard drive should be 1.5 Gb/s and not 1.5 GB/s, right? Or, am I getting something mixed up? I am pretty sure, that it's just written wrong, and if so... is this just accidental, or a marketing scheme?
Your thoughts... ;)
Here's the link to the Best Buy hard drive page. You can see all the hard drives listed there show the same thing:
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Comment by Marc Pulsifer on September 21, 2010 at 9:46am -
More than likely it is an error on the site. All information is hand entered so errors will occur.
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