[Gllug] re: SCSI vs Serial ATA

[Richard Jones]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 12:11:34PM +0100, t.clarke wrote:
> If electricity flows at about 1 foot a nanosecond,

Just to correct you here: the electronic *signal* moves at that speed.
The actual electrons themselves move much much more slowly:

http://www.amasci.com/miscon/speed.html
http://sol.sci.uop.edu/~jfalward/ohmslaw/ohmslaw.html

If electrons themselves were moving close to the speed of light, then
your computer would weigh quite a lot :-)

Rich.

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