On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Patrick Finnegan wrote: > As someone else has noted, networking people have (as far as I can tell) > always taken Mbps and Kbps to mean 10^6 and 10^3, respectively, bits > per second. and, of course, disk makers. the 1.4M drive is usually run at 300 RPM (exception: NEC, etc.) at 500 K bits per second. That 500Kbps is 500,000 bits per second.