| Interfaccia o Dispositivo | Velocità |
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| porta seriale | 115Kbit/sec |
| porta parallela | 115KByte/sec |
| porta parallela ECP/EPP | 3MByte/sec |
| USB | 12Mbit/sec (=1.5Mbyte/sec) |
| IEEE-1394 (firewire) | 100-400Mbit/sec (=12.5-50Mbyte/sec) |
| | |
| IDE | 3.3-16.7MByte/sec |
| Ultra IDE | 33Mbyte/sec |
| | |
| 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 | 100-400MByte/sec |
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| Ethernet | 10Mbit/sec |
| Fast Ethernet | 100Mbit/sec |
| Gigabit Ethernet | 1000Mbit/sec |
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| Stereo Digitale | 2*44.100*16 bit/sec (=180KByte/sec) |
| | |
| Lettura o Scrittura Floppy | 18KByte/sec |
| Lettura CDROM 1x | 150kbit/sec (=18KByte/sec) |
| Lettura CDROM 40x | 720KByte/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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