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you assert that:
Actually, kb/s is used to refer to kiloBYTES per second whereas KB/s is used to refer to kiloBITS per second with 8 kilobits per kilobyte. when talking about transfer rates. This is sometimes switched around as well to confuse things even more. Fortunately, for LAN connections, Mbit and MB/s is used to clear things up a bit.
Also, I am not aware of a SINGLE hard drive manufacturer who does NOT use 10^9 instead of 2^30 bytes for a gigabyte when measuring HD space.