| Interfaccia o Dispositivo | Velocità |
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| porta seriale (vecchio stile) | 115Kbit/sec |
| porta parallela (vecchissimo stile) | 115KByte/sec |
| porta parallela ECP/EPP | 3MByte/sec |
| USB 1.1 | 12Mbit/sec (=1.5Mbyte/sec) |
| USB 2.0 | 480Mbit/sec (=40Mbyte/sec) |
| USB 3.0 | 5Gbit/sec (=500Mbyte/sec) |
| IEEE-1394 (firewire) | 100-400Mbit/sec (=12.5-50Mbyte/sec) |
| IEEE-1394 (firewire 800 S1600 and S3200) | 0.8Gbit/s, 1.6 Gbit/s and 3.2 Gbit/s |
| Thunderbolt 3 con USB-C | 40Gbit/sec (=5Gbyte/sec) |
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| IDE | 3.3-16.7MByte/sec |
| Ultra IDE = PATA33 | 33Mbyte/sec |
| PATA66 | 66Mbyte/sec |
| PATA133 | 133Mbyte/sec |
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| SATA 1.5Gb (SATA 1) | 150MByte/sec |
| SATA 3.0Gb (SATA II) | 150-300MByte/sec |
| SATA 6.0Gb (SATA III) | 300-600MByte/sec |
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| SCSI-1 | 5Mbyte/sec |
| SCSI-2 (Fast SCSI,Fast Narrow SCSI) | 10Mbyte/sec |
| Ultra SCSI (SCSI-3,Fast-20,Ultra Narrow) | 20Mbyte/sec |
| Ultra2-SCSI | 40MByte/sec |
| Ultra3-SCSI | 80Mbyte/sec |
| Wide SCSI (Fast Wide SCSI) | 20Mbyte/sec |
| Wide Ultra SCSI | 40Mbyte/sec |
| Wide Ultra2-SCSI | 80Mbyte/sec |
| Wide Ultra3-SCSI | 160Mbyte/sec |
| FC-AL Fiber Channel | 100-3200MByte/sec |
| | |
| SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) | 6Gbit/sec (=750MByte/sec) |
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| Ethernet | 10Mbit/sec |
| Fast Ethernet | 100Mbit/sec |
| Gigabit Ethernet | 1000Mbit/sec |
| 10 Gigabit Ethernet | 10Gbit/sec |
| 40 Gigabit Ethernet | 40Gbit/sec |
| 100 Gigabit Ethernet | 100Gbit/sec |
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| Stereo Digitale | 2*44.100*16 bit/sec (=180KByte/sec) |
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| Lettura o Scrittura Floppy | 18KByte/sec |
| Lettura CDROM 1x | 150kByte/sec |
| Lettura CDROM 40x | 6MByte/sec |
| Lettura DVD 1x | 1.2MByte/sec (=CDROM 8x) |
| Lettura DVD 4x | 5.28MByte/sec (=CDROM 32x) |
| Lettura Blu-Ray 2x | 9MByte/sec |
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| Nastro DAT DDS-1 | 180kByte/sec |
| Nastro DAT DDS-2 | 360kByte/sec |
| Nastro DAT DDS-3 | 1.2MByte/sec |
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