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Legacy – PC Various Hardware speeds

March 4, 2010

 

Service Value Units
ECP/EPP PC to PC Connection (Parallel Port) 2 Mbps
ATA Hard Drive PIO Mode 0 3.33 Mbps
ATA Hard Drive PIO Mode 1 5.22 Mbps
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) Downstream 6 Mbps
ATA Hard Drive PIO Mode 2 8.33 Mbps
ATA Hard Drive PIO Mode 3 11.11 Mbps
Universal Serial Bus (USB) 12 Mbps
ATA Hard Drive PIO Mode 4 16.67 Mbps
U-NII Wireless 24 Mbps
Ultra DMA Hard Disk 33 33 Mbps
SCSI-1 40 Mbps
16-bit ISA card (needs 2 clock cycles) 64 Mbps
Ultra DMA Hard Disk 66 66 Mbps
Fast SCSI 80 Mbps
PCMCIA Card (PC Card) 16 bit 80 Mbps
100Base-T Ethernet (Fast Ethernet) 100 Mbps
Ultra DMA Hard Disk 100 100 Mbps
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) 155.52 Mbps
Fast Wide SCSI 160 Mbps
Ultra SCSI 160 Mbps
Wide Ultra SCSI 320 Mbps
MicroChannel Card 320 Mbps
FireWire (IEEE 1394) 400 Mbps
USB 2.0 480 Mbps
Wide Ultra2 SCSI 640 Mbps
VL Bus 1 Gbps
PCI bus at 33 MHz bus speed 1 Gbps
Ultra160 SCSI 1.28 Gbps
Ultra3 SCSI 1.28 Gbps
PCI bus at 66 MHz bus speed 2 Gbps
AGP 1X port 2.1 Gbps
Ultra320 SCSI 2.56 Gbps
PCI bus at 100 MHz bus speed 3.2 Gbps
PCI bus 64 bit at 66MHz 4.2 Gbps
AGP 2X port 4.2 Gbps
AGP 4X port 8.5 Gbps

 

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kbps kilobits per second. (kilo = thousands)
Mbps Megabits per second. (Mega = millions)
MBps Megabytes per second. (Mega = millions)
Gbps Gigabits per second. (Giga = billions)