[dpw]

The linked article states 100 Gb/s, i.e. gigabits per second. But the post title says "100GB/s" which suggests gigabytes per second. Worth correcting, because getting 100GB/s between two machines in the same rack would be quite an achievement today.

[barkingcat]

And also, this being a tech oriented start up targeted discussion site, it would be important to get the basic units of internet service correct in the titles.

[benjarrell]

I used to resist the KiB/MiB/GiB nomenclature. But after seeing this problem everywhere, I've changed my mind.

[zaphoyd]

I think in this case the issue isn't binary prefixes vs decimal which in this case would amount to a ~7% error, but rather bits vs bytes which is an error of ~800%

[grubles]

Yes, I'm not sure the parent realizes KiB (kibibyte) is different than Kb (kilobit): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte

[craigds]

error of 700%, technically

[imaginenore]

How does that solve anything? I still don't know if you meant KiB = kilobit or kilobyte.

[wyldfire]

As others have pointed out it's the difference between bits and bytes. But "among bytes" units, I prefer the base-2 SI units (KiB/MiB/GiB) because as written, they're unambiguous.

[lsc]

You're not wrong...

but the convention that network connections are rated in bits per second is very strong, and largely solves this sort of confusion

[privacy101]

it is a big mistake but either way it is very fast...