Transfers per second

<p>In computer technology, transfers per second and its more common secondary terms gigatransfers per second (abbreviated as GT/s) and megatransfers per second (MT/s) are informal language that refer to the number of operations transferring data that occur in each second in some given <a href="/facts/Communications_channel/MtlxEShV">data-transfer channel</a>. It is also known as <a href="/facts/Sample_rate/xxck7aLN">sample rate</a>, i.e. the number of data samples captured per second, each sample normally occurring at the clock edge. The terms are neutral with respect to the method of physically accomplishing each such data-transfer operation; nevertheless, they are most commonly used in the context of <a href="/facts/Transmission_(telecommunications)/33zk8a0A">transmission</a> of digital data. 1 MT/s is 106 or one million transfers per second; similarly, 1 GT/s means 109, or equivalently in the US/<a href="/facts/Long_and_short_scales/qkxEuNw2">short scale</a>, one <a href="/facts/1%2c000%2c000%2c000_(number)/Ij1fl5Q7">billion</a> transfers per second.
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