Bit rate
| Quantity | Unit | bits/s | bytes/s | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | kbit/s | 4,000 | 500 | minimum achieved for encoding recognizable speech (using special-purpose speech codecs) |
| 8 | kbit/s | 8,000 | 1,000 | telephone |
| 32 | kbit/s | 32,000 | 4,000 | Medium wave |
| 128 | kbit/s | 128,000 | 16,000 | MP3 128 kb/s – 128,000 b/s |
| 192 | kbit/s | 192,000 | 24,000 | MP3 192 kb/s |
| 592 | kbit/s | 592,000 | 74,000 | FLAC (CD audio compressed to 42%) |
| 1,411.2 | kbit/s | 1,411,200 | 176,400 | CD audio (see also .wav) |
| 1536 | kbit/s | 1,536,000 | 192,000 | 1536k DS1/T1 – 1,536,000 b/s (1.536 Mb/s) |
| 2000 | kbit/s | 2,000,000 | 250,000 | 2000k DSL 2000 – 2,000,000 bit/s |
| 8 | Mbit/s | 8,000,000 | 1,000,000 | DVD quality |
| 27 | Mbit/s | 27,000,000 | 3,375,000 | HDTV quality |
| 60 | MB/s | 480,000,000 | 60,000,000 | USB 2.0 |
| 98.3 | MB/s | 786,432,000 | 98,304,000 | FireWire IEEE 1394b-2002 S800 |
| 120 | MB/s | 960,000,000 | 120,000,000 | Harddrive read, Samsung SpinPoint F1 HD103Uj [1] |
| 1 | Gbit/s | 1,000,000,000 | 125,000,000 | Gigabit Ethernet |
| 133 | MB/s | 1,064,000,000 | 133,000,000 | PATA 33 – 133 MB/s |
| 150 | MB/s | 1,200,000,000 | 150,000,000 | SATA 1.5Gb/s – First generation |
| 300 | MB/s | 2,400,000,000 | 300,000,000 | SATA 3Gb/s – Second generation |
| 533 | MB/s | 4,264,000,000 | 533,000,000 | PCI 133 – 533 MB/s |
| 600 | MB/s | 4,800,000,000 | 600,000,000 | SATA 6Gb/s – Third generation |
| 625 | MB/s | 5,000,000,000 | 625,000,000 | USB 3.0 |