Data Transfer Rates

Data written on a hard drive is encoded not as human readable language but rather a series of 1s and 0s that represent a Bit or Binary Digit. This is the only language that the computer understands that is why it is commonly referred to as machine language. Commonly, files have a property size of xx KB (kilobytes) or xx Byte, a byte consists of eight bits which represents a character. Data transfer rates is the velocity at which data is transmitted from one device to another.

In IDE hard disk specifications, it is commonly seen that a data transfer rate is xx ms (microsecond). Essential, the lower the data transfer rate, the faster the hard disk can read and write on the media and retrieve data that is requested by the user or a software application. The data transfer rate allows for faster execution of tasks sent by the user to the computer system.

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