EVA - B Series Gigabits or gigabytes

[balln]

I might be going a bit bonkers but i need some help in clarifying the switch and array quickspec port speeds.

are they in Gigabits per second or gigabytes per second?

Many thanks

[ks6542 · Accepted solution]

its Gbit/Sec.....

[marsh_1]

hi,

standard is Gb for gigabits , GB for gigbytes.

hth

[Víctor Cespón]

And remember you must divide by 10 to get bytes/s, not by 8, because on the fiber channel protocol 8b/10b encoding is used to keep signal timing accurate.

[krusty]

Hi Balin,

Think of Gb as a unit of speed (Gb/sec), whereas GB is a unit of of storage(a Gigabyte). Fibre Channel is a serial protocol, so it is expressed in Gb/sec; whereas SCSI is parallel (one byte is tranmitted with each clcok pulse) , so speed on SCSI are expressed as GB/sec.

Cheers,

Curt